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proximoception35. The Fruits of Enlightenment, tr. Frayn
Nothing much to say about this one, past that it's a satire on seances and on the gentry in general. The peasants and less citified servants are valorized instead - so yes, late Tolstoy. Like all of his plays but Power of Darkness it's quite far down the list of what to read by him, but even his comedies aren't bad.
Quarterly progress report time. Read 16 or 17 books each in January/February - Chekhov was hard to count - but just three in March. I guess it was a distracting month, but so were the first two. Shame on me.
Approximate page counts:
January - 2030 pages, of which 275 were from Shakespeare & co.
February - 1900 pp/410 pp
March - 885 pp/365 pp
Total to date - 4815 of 10,000 total pages; 1050 of 5000 by the ten core authors
Way ahead on page count, a bit behind on Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Proust, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Stevens, Kafka.
Presently partway through The Waves, Stephen Hero, Emperor and Galilean, Merwin's Purgatorio and The Face of Another. Should finish Don Juan, Verses and Versions and Walden from last year soon; let those go too long and you feel obliged to restart, like I'd probably have to with a lot of aborted 2010 novels at this point, such as Invisible Man, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter.
We're seeing a student production of Othello tomorrow. Wonder if I should read it first.
Nothing much to say about this one, past that it's a satire on seances and on the gentry in general. The peasants and less citified servants are valorized instead - so yes, late Tolstoy. Like all of his plays but Power of Darkness it's quite far down the list of what to read by him, but even his comedies aren't bad.
Quarterly progress report time. Read 16 or 17 books each in January/February - Chekhov was hard to count - but just three in March. I guess it was a distracting month, but so were the first two. Shame on me.
Approximate page counts:
January - 2030 pages, of which 275 were from Shakespeare & co.
February - 1900 pp/410 pp
March - 885 pp/365 pp
Total to date - 4815 of 10,000 total pages; 1050 of 5000 by the ten core authors
Way ahead on page count, a bit behind on Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Proust, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Stevens, Kafka.
Presently partway through The Waves, Stephen Hero, Emperor and Galilean, Merwin's Purgatorio and The Face of Another. Should finish Don Juan, Verses and Versions and Walden from last year soon; let those go too long and you feel obliged to restart, like I'd probably have to with a lot of aborted 2010 novels at this point, such as Invisible Man, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter.
We're seeing a student production of Othello tomorrow. Wonder if I should read it first.
