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Sep. 27th, 2003 05:22 pmWork on a Saturday again. Bah, humbug, but I'm only in for an hour or so, and I'm planning to take Monday out to do Other Stuff, so it's both unavoidable and not too bad. My friend J. is down so the plan for this evening involves becoming remarkably drunk and not thinking about tax or property law. Should be quite readily achievable.
I seem to have fallen into the trap of reading far too many books at once, and they're all blurring into one another. The Nth Annual Reread of LotR is fitting quite well with The Peace to End All Peace, about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the complete cockup the surviving Great Powers (well, us and the French) made of resolving the situation, a whirlwind we are all most assuredly reaping now, but a book about the Pilgrimage of Grace, about which I know almost nothing, and feel I should, and Steven Erikson's series (which I have to admit to finding a little stodgy and occasionally confused) are really not fitting well: I keep picturing Boromir as Henry VIII for one thing, and that can't be right.
I seem to have fallen into the trap of reading far too many books at once, and they're all blurring into one another. The Nth Annual Reread of LotR is fitting quite well with The Peace to End All Peace, about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the complete cockup the surviving Great Powers (well, us and the French) made of resolving the situation, a whirlwind we are all most assuredly reaping now, but a book about the Pilgrimage of Grace, about which I know almost nothing, and feel I should, and Steven Erikson's series (which I have to admit to finding a little stodgy and occasionally confused) are really not fitting well: I keep picturing Boromir as Henry VIII for one thing, and that can't be right.
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