The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin‘s The Limits of Vision. Marcia is an English housewife seemingly obsessed with cleanliness. When her vacuum cleaner breaks down, just before her coffee morning guests arrive, she is confronted by Mucor the Fungus, the spokesperson for dirt. Once her guests arrive, admiring the Dutch painting of a spotlessly clean house, she drifts off to the Gobi Desert with Teilhard de Chardin, who admires her housekeeping skills. She will later have a bath with Leonardo da Vinci, hear Blake’s poem about the Hoover and meet other long deceased celebrities to help her solve her cleaning problems. Is she mad and, more importantly, what does husband Philip think? The answer is not what you might expect. As always Robert Irwin produces something different from the norm. The book was first published in 1986 but has been republished in 1922 by Dedalus Books.