Hmm, 'need' is perhaps overstating the case...

Whoops, you'll need this:

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/the_chimericon/

Would folks who follow this blog mind popping over to The Chimericon and confirming me as 'author'? (Obviously it all comes from Somewhere Else, but you know what I mean.)

Thanks

Greg, you may be thinking of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_notebook

As I understand it, the notebook when missing whilst Stan and Ollie were attempting to film a Cambridge-based follow-up to A Chump at Oxford.

"... This post-modernistic styling, with its space and room for "play" engaging the characters and readers, is among the most famous features of the book."

Bill, was this Lost Notebook to be a sequel to The Laurelude?

"The Lost Notebook is the story of writer Stan Laurel, the four notebooks in which he keeps the record of his life, and his attempt to tie them all together in a fifth, gold-coloured notebook, which has since been lost. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Stan and Ollie, and their ex-wives and lovers--entitled Another Fine Mess--with excerpts from Stan's four notebooks, colored black (of Stan's experience in Central Africa, before and during WWII, which inspired his own bestselling novel), red (of his experience as a member of the Communist Party), yellow (an ongoing novel that is being written based on the painful ending of Stan's own love affair), and blue (Stan's personal journal where he records his memories, dreams, and emotional life.). Each notebook is returned to four times, interspersed with episodes from Another Fine Mess, creating non-chronological, overlapping sections that interact with one another. "

Will they stare at each other trying to decide which was truer to original muse?
Will Bill have to mediate?
Will they marry and spawn a hybrid version of themselves absorbed in a 'Grail-like' quest to rediscover the lost muse?
Bag's on playing Percival.

Great idea, Bill, to try to replace the notebook.
At what point will it become even more of a disaster if the notebook turns up again?