The Daily Readings link now generates a "404 Not Found". How could they do this to me? Now I have to use the physical books all the time. (It's easier to drag the printout to the childrens' various lessons.) It will also be a pain to dig through the Bartelby links for those who want to read along.
Why should it take work to become a brilliant genius, and to document said becoming?
Showing posts with label Oh no. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oh no. Show all posts
Feb 28: Under the weather
I have read my Montaigne today, but I am not feeling up to writing about him, except to note that the translation is from the 1500s. To quote the Introductory Note, it's "in a style so full of the flavor of the age that we still read Montaigne in the version which Shakespeare knew." Not really, but we do read him in this version when we don't want to pay someone to translate it into our English.
Having had to read this style and spelling a lot in my college days, I can take it, but it's still tough to read:
The essay is "On the Education of Children," and more than that I will not say. Montaigne's super discursive style -- the first two pages are about quoting the classics without attribution -- does not lend itself to the achy.
Having had to read this style and spelling a lot in my college days, I can take it, but it's still tough to read:
...as even now I did in Plutarke, reading his discourse of the power of imagination, wherein in regard of those wise men, I acknowledge my selfe so weake and so poore, so dull and grose-headed, as I am forced both to pittie and disdaine my selfe, yet am I pleased with this, that my opinions have often the grace to jump with theirs, and that I follow them a loofe-offI kind of feel like a loofe-off myself. (I do like "hony" for "honey," though; I find it charming, somehow.)
The essay is "On the Education of Children," and more than that I will not say. Montaigne's super discursive style -- the first two pages are about quoting the classics without attribution -- does not lend itself to the achy.
Oh no (3)
I have misplaced Volume 48 (Pascal). Hopefully he doesn't have anything else to say the rest of the year.
Oh no (2)
I have a feeling the writers' strike may be drawing to a close. My evidence is
1.Nikki Finke, but also
2. My agent want to talk to me all of a sudden.
This is bad news for this project because I'll have to work. Farewell to doing my reading at 4 in the afternoon or whenever.
The plus side is that I can try to make my way through the DRG under actual field conditions, but, in this case, plus = minus.
1.Nikki Finke, but also
2. My agent want to talk to me all of a sudden.
This is bad news for this project because I'll have to work. Farewell to doing my reading at 4 in the afternoon or whenever.
The plus side is that I can try to make my way through the DRG under actual field conditions, but, in this case, plus = minus.
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