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Posted Feb 8, 2012
Stoppard. The Invention of Love.
It came in the mail two days ago.
Oh, my.
What a piece of work!
Propertius, for goodness' sake!
Stoppard has moved from his youthful Shakespeare phase into a phase in which all of Western Literature is a simple and vitally necessary background to his totally modern voice.
I'm breathless after a first reading of a third of the play.
Oh, marvelous!
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Done
Posted Jan 20, 2012
I'm tired of clutching at the straw that broke the camel's back.
See some of you elsewhere, `perha`ps.
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about jokes ...
Posted Jan 15, 2012
Go ahead with the harmless ones.
But consider your audience before you decide they're harmless.
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Oh. My.
Posted Jan 12, 2012
I was just hanging around Facebook for a few minutes and I thought, I haven't heard anything from Chris (one of my oldest friends) for a few months . . .
http://player.vimeo.com/video/32100624?autoplay=1
Last time I saw her in person was in Calgary about fifteen years ago. Her daughter dressed my daughter up in a fairy outfit. With big grins on their faces and the Zulu girl's arms wrapped around the little white girl they made a perfect United Colours of Benetton picture.
What a wonderful person Christina was, and what a terrible loss.
I'm going to go and have a big cry.
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The disappeared
Posted Jan 8, 2012
The artist formally known as Effers U1508701 has just sent me some absolutely lovely drawings made many years ago as illustrations of the youthful Pyrenean adventure which she made into guide entry A81059088 and which was picked out of Peer Review five weeks ago. I wish I could share the drawings with everyone. They have the marvellous feel of old Victorian Natural History illustrations, with carefully hand-lettered labels, meticulous detail and the wear of time. Like the guide entry she wrote, Effers has in the illustrations the same combination of careful, impartial scientific observation and sensitive nostalgia for that long-ago moment beside that small stream in the Pyrenees.
I wish the drawings could be shared more widely. I'm going to ask Effers if she would allow me to print them out and frame them so that at least real life visitors to my home can appreciate them.
I wish I had been allowed to keep my notebook from the excavation of the Roman villa at San Giovanni di Ruoti in 1983, but it was considered property of the University and I was required to turn it over for archiving. Certainly none of my field illustrations showed any of the care and feeling which Effers shows in her drawings, but it would be nice to look back at my own rough work, perhaps with a view to making of them some new works for exhibit.
Ah, but some things it seems are destined (doomed?) to be filled away for future students who may never come.
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