July 2010
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Brian Eno - “On Some Faraway Beach”
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Scott swims most weekday mornings at the Y. He’s been swimming for years now, but I was never very interested and couldn’t find the time. I’m not exactly sure what changed, but this weekend I bought an athletic swimsuit and a cap and this morning I went with him to the Y. Neither of us had a good night’s sleep because someone’s security alarm down the hall kept going off and I kept...
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“I have done nothing but read it to others, and hear others again read it to me,...”
– Henry Fielding, Shamela, taken verbatim from the first letter added to the second edition of Pamela.
I’m at the part in Pamela where I want to tear out my hair. She and Mr B. have just been married, a scene which has been preceded by dozens of pages’ worth of smarmy wankering gratitude and humility and punctilio and sweet words and proclaimed unworthiness and solemn frowns over the prospect of marriage vows and insistence on continuing to call her future husband “my...
At last night’s class we went on a field trip to the university’s archives to look at some early editions of the works we’ve been studying from eighteenth century Britain. We sat at the tables which held some giant old books and journals while the director told us a bit about their collections and about the physical aspects of the publication of books in the period. The professor...
