Now...

Now I'm the one that hasn't posted in a long time. It's been over a month for me, but surely I put some comments in someone's blog between then and now.

Anyway, updates:

I'm reading a few things right now: A book of poetry by Baudelaire (Thanks Robert), a theo-philosophy book by St. Augustine, some lingusitics stuff (comparative linguistics mostly).

I recently completed the 50 8-line stanza epic "Adonais" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I recommend it for anyone who likes a good romantic poem. Here's my advice....if the copy you read online doesn't say "In memory of John Keats" on the top, make note of that. Shelley is writing for Keats, who had recently died. Keats becomes "Adonais." I think I've already given Chris and Robert this warning, but if the other two of you happen upon it, it's helpful to know that.

Some lines from Baudelaire:

[...]
"I love you for the leagues of irony
You place between my pleading and the sky.

I crawl across your body like a horde
Of worms across a corpse, O Beast, adored
The more you show me, to augment my pain,
Your splendid and implacable disdain."

Good stuff.

I'm done with your Naomi Klein books Robert. I'll have to give those back to you (along with Spiegelman) next time that I see you. I have yet to broach the book in which the EBWhite essay is - forgive me - I needed to read some other things.

I volunteer at a GRE and ESL school for about 3 or 6 hours a week now. That's the excitement in my life.

Well, kids, a fond adieu to all.

PS - I'm glad there still is blood in your veins, Erik. And--have you finished the Dark Tower books yet? Have you even read 5,6,7 yet?