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Thursday, August 17, 2006
A Distant Modem Lazy, hazy, summer day... Couldn't get online for a long while because of problems with a distant modem (wasn't that a book by Barbara Tuchman?)... Spent hours reading Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, which I've assigned to my Contemporary American Literature class... Spent other hours writing a longish post -- call it an essay -- on Why the First Five Pages of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood are Among the Best Five Pages of Prose I've Ever Read (I'll post it tomorrow)... All of this in solitude because Mr. UD's at George Mason University, where there's a small conference dedicated to a work in progress of his, and UD's Joycean Spawn is at the Comcast Outdoor Film Festival at nearby Strathmore Hall (whose attractive grounds are directly across the street from Georgetown Prep, whereat a number of Duke lacrosse players were educated)... |