1) How this little book of stories of Forest Families in the 1930s in British India landed up on my table, I have no idea. 2) As it came from the UK, it might have been from Dr Richard Bingle of the India Office Library, who helped author Mary McDonald Currie with it, but he’d have put a message in it. 3) Leaving that mystery aside, a word about the book. 4) It tells of life in the forests of different parts of India for British District Forest Officers.  5) Which is particularly odd because human-made super-blacks rely not on chaos, but strict patterning of structures.