Due to a volcano eruption, your city is about to be destroyed. You have to leave right now, just as you are at the moment, no time to pack, grab only what you can! How ready are you to survive the next 2 weeks?
If grabbing only what I can means whatever I can cram into a backpack or grocery bag at least, I'd definitely grab my copies of K-PAX, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, my collected edition of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, my copy of Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes -- just as many books as I could fit, and maybe a few cans of carrots and beans as an afterthought. Oh! My Game Boy Advance bag, with the solar charger! If I could I'd try to grab that also.
If that's not possible, I'd just grab the nearest book I saw and run out the door. I always carry a knife on me, and oftentimes a gun, and I keep a rifle and a "go bag" with emergency tools in my car, so I wouldn't have a terribly tough time roughing it. I also regularly practice minimalist camping, and I know how to fish, hunt, dress game, sterilize water and I understand what stuff nearby I can dig out of the dirt and eat versus what stuff would probably cause me a measure of unpleasantness. So, if a puma doesn't get me, I reckon I'd be alright in the bush. Physically, anyhow. Having only one book for the ensuing two week period might be difficult, that'd barely last me a day or two. And the shocking emotional trauma of leaving my library behind would take an indescribable toll.
Oh! My music player and the solar bank. Nah, if I could grab the books, maybe if I meet another survivor we could trade books for music or something. Ah, well. Can't have it all, I reckon. But whenever could we really? Anyhow, if it all burns down, life out there doesn't scare me much. There are I times I wonder if I'd almost prefer it.
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