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At the month 6

(mostly in order):

David Madden - Revising Fiction
D.H. Lawrence - The Virgin and the Gipsy
John Steinbeck - The Red Pony and Travels with Charley
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities and Difficult Loves and The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
GK Chesterton - Heretics
Soren Kierkegaard - The Modern Library Collection of...
Paul Auster - Man in the Dark
Arthur Schopenhauer - On Pessimism

Surely this cannot be it. I can say the 90 percent of this has occurred in the last month and a half. So where have I been? January through March was an awful stretch. Little reading, writing, enjoying. Much anxiety and velocity. Dark, early nights. Depression. Heart aches. I am pleased with my progress.

This Kierkegaard book has been a steady, faithful companion.

And now for Korea (I have still to hear from GSU regarding funding, which I take as a less than good sign), and of which books I will choose. Allowing for space, I am planning on these:

The Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov
The Complete Stories of Eudora Welty
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

And a toss up between Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago and Certain Things Last by Sherwood Anderson.

The prospect of such a shrunken library frightens me, but this will make for some relaxed, albeit close, reading.

Lately, I've come across a terrific collection of audiobooks at http://www.audiobookemporiumb2.no-ip.com/index.php

It simply requires registration and you have complete access to Saul Bellow, Richard Ford, Jeffrey Eugenides, John Updike, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Strout, whoever. It's quite overwhelming. Highly recommend!!!

It has been a time!

• Read Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, a birthday gift from Nicole. Thank you!
• Finally sent all my paperwork to Korea
• Still waiting to hear about funding at Georgia State
• Left facebook
• STILL reading Modern Library Kierkegaard collection, and STILL enjoying!
• Received a haircut
• Eating a lot of carbohydrates
• Drinking more coffee
• Swimming nude
• Getting 2 for 1 24 0z cans of miller lite at the gas station with Anthony...right now!!!
  

Stand by your man

lancelot du lac

in a dream I was death’s carriage mosquito
bringing you a slow-acting tablet of finality.
you, a diseased commoner of Bresson’s,
a ruddy peasant fishing a lake of glass coke bottle
terrariums filled with curling purple vines.

black breasted zebra finches

i find these birds very beautiful

http://www.efinch.com/species/bbzeb.htm

typewriter and maps

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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

By Katharine Harmon


"Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike. It is little surprise that, in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology, contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints. "

but i appreciate geographical constraints. constraints is not a pleasing word.

Google book preview:
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