Out Stealing Horses, in continuation

Still reading Out Stealing Horses, and still incapable of describing how in so few words he can construct mental landmines with such perfect balance.

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“What are you reading?”

…there is a fear on my part that translations miss some aspect, that I am missing out on something which I can only approximate an understanding of, but as in a commercial roll versus my aunt’s sweet rolls, you can only know it’s missing if you’ve had one before. It is a pain I cannot quite describe, almost heart-breaking to know that there is something which I am denied knowing because I do not have the means to get at it.

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Protected: Work and death are mutually exclusive and only rarely otherwise

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Reading with subtitles 1

The book: The Anglo Files A Field Guide to the British3, by Sarah Lyall
The time & place: Logan Circle, 430ish to six or so, in the fall.
I’m really quite certain, even in the depths of potential crisis housing salesmen may find themselves in, it is illegal to use federal park land to advertise their wares.
Of [...]

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Travel reading: Atwood & Klein

Terminal A at PHL is has plenty of light, even if it has that wonderful brutal exposed, pockmarked concrete aesthetic that only a Stalinist could love; PHL Terminal A East needs Carson Kressley.
I have another four hours to wait, though I have plenty on interesting books, like The Blind Assassin which I’ve been working my [...]

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Deselection, failure of

I had intended to write of my first purge, of books, at least of the one’s I could remember besides that end of term bonfire I don’t regret. However I have been unable to find anything I can toss/recycle/donate/turn into abstract art Wahabbis would display on Jeddah’s corniche next to the block of cement with [...]

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Quiet on the Po-to-mac

When everyone else rushes off to the beach for the weekend, I stay. Three day weekends of national importance are always consumed with too much stress, strain and concern unfitting for a holiday. Given the tenor, I have long found staying in town, which while never silent, is quieter and warmer in the absence of [...]

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