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[proximoception]

When I'm freed in ten days I will:

1. Sleep for a week.
2. Go to Ohio.
3. Finish the books I had to partly skim.
4. Clean this sty.
5. Exercise daily.
6. Get everything ready for July.

7. Fill in my few major Am. Lit gaps. Esp.: Walden & Invisible Man. Maybe some James--Bostonians, Jolly Corner, Beast in the Jungle, Aspern Papers, Turn of the Screw. Norton selections of female writers: Rowlandson's Narrative, Charlotte, Life in the Iron Mills, The Awakening, Their Eyes Were watching God, maybe Sula. A Cather novel or two. Gravity's Rainbow and/or Mason & Dixon.

Whatever I've missed of Dickinson, Whitman and Emerson. Biographies and trendy criticism are an even higher priority, unfortunately.

8. Polish the papers instructors recommended I publish--successful or no, it will be a good introduction to the process.

9. Read for enjoyment? Suttree at the very least. Past that we'll see what time is like. And I've mostly forgotten my interests, personality.

10. Watch movies. Any Bergmans and Kurosawas we missed, maybe some Fellinis and early Godards. Political documentaries to keep up lividity levels. All these other movies we've been hearing about but missing. Give Inland Empire another chance?

Sounds like a summer.