Alas, the best laid plans of Mice and Men (or as Douglas Adams would say, no, just of mice). I went down to the Amtrak station to buy a ticket to visit my auntie and then off to New York and found that in the bustle of the crowd, had misplaced my pass that would allow it. Even though the pass was made solely out of paper, Amtrak refuses to reprint it. On the plus side, this accelerates my leaving for Brasil. That I am quite happy about.
I recently purchased Harvard's 5 food shelf of books, and am going to spend some time trying to figure out which books I can take. I think I am going to stick to some tried and true books, Dante, Milton, Goethe (which comes along with Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, which I had wanted to read) as well as an autobiography written by the charming and utterly self conceited Benevuto Cellini. It really is fun to start reading all of these old books. Milton is a bit of a pain because he does not provide convenient stopping places like Dante does.
I was in Borders looking for the final book I have not read in a roughly 6 or 7 thousand page series. As you can imagine, I have really gotten into the characters, so imagine my frustration in not being able to locate the book. Not being able to leave Borders with out buying a book, I bought Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's collaborative spoof on the Apocalypse, as well as an anthology of poetry based on the concept of solitude. I much prefer an anthology based around something concrete (well, sort of) then one simply titled "America's Favorite Poetry" where the compiler has made quite a few assumptions about peoples preferences. The first poem was by Walt Whitman, which I rather enjoyed, even if Whitman was a dirty hippy along with Thoreau and probably Emerson. In fact Poe is one of the few poets (barring a few obvious ones such as G.K. Chesterton) who is not a dirty hippy.
--Andy
p.s. The book by Gaiman and Pratchett is called Good Omens, and is dedicated to "G.K. Chesterton. A man who knew what was going on." Amazing. Explains why those two are such good writers if they are following he lead.
p.p.s. Buy I think Wordsworth is also okay. He seems like he would enjoy scaring small children.
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poe may not have been a "hippie," but i think he would qualify as "dirty" since he died in the gutter of a (likely) drug/alchohol overdose. can't really blame him though. every woman he ever loved (or, heck, was aquainted with) died of tuburculosis. i would be depressed too.
sorry to hear about new york, glad to hear about brazil, even gladder to hear about the poetry books (so when you need a place to store these fine things *signficant ellipsis*).
;)
The lovely lady is partially correct. It has now been suggested that Poe might have died, not of a drug/alcohol overdose, but tragically, of rabies.
One can never have quite too much trivia.
Besides...I have a disturbing feeling that I might have been one of those "dirty hippies" with the possible exception of "dirty."
When do you go to Brasil?
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