Week of much talk

All,

Well, let the electronic record of the past few days on reflect that many words were spilled on the fate of an institution that is no longer within our direct sphere of influence.

Travis, we appear to be ignorant enough to need to take your hipster course. I have only read a little Ginsberg, nothing else. Basic starting recommendations?

This weekend I betook myself to the library, fleeing an overdose of Royal Street boy add-ons. (The nasty supermarket-like library in Leesburg). I scooped up a fairly random selection before the electronic voice cleared us all out of there:
- An anthology of English country house murders
- a critical anthology of Donne (emphasis on his sermons)
- a collections of short stories that have appeared over the years in Esquire
- a book of cultural context essays re: Austen
- a volume of Billy Collins poetry

So far I have read bits of the Donne book, the mysteries and some Billy Collins poetry. The Donne book, ed. by John Moses, has an interesting introduction by the Archbishop of Cantebury, but other than that is disappointing so far. I will let you know if Moses redeems himself.

The Collins poetry I like, but I liked him before. He has a style like a pen and ink drawing with clean lines, and is obliquely beautiful. The murder mystery complier picked a very bad example of Lord Peter, and so I am ticked. Although he does suggest that defenestration should be a more common murder method. I quite agree.

All for now, the office and the morning sun are scolding me.