Nov. 2nd, 2015

monk222: (DarkSide: by spiraling_down)
A curious dream. I went to a historical site celebrating Abraham Lincoln. It seemed to have memorabilia and books. I was there with Mr. Telemann (from PolitiCartoons) and a friend of his. I had recently bought a book from elsewhere and unrelated to Lincoln. While sitting at one place, I unaccountably put my new book on the shelf with Lincoln books. Not long afterward, I catch myself and grab my book back. But it's not my book! It's a different copy. I have one of the docile women curators helping me. The book is marked and it even has bugs on one of its pages. Someone had switched it with mine.

I wake up without any resolution. And I am puzzled. The dream seems to be trying to say something. The only thing that comes to my mind is the possibility that I might be feeling guilty about leaving Lincoln for Thomas Mann in my reading life, or, more strongly, that I would do better to stick with Lincoln. It has been an issue with me. What would be the best use of my time and effort? I don't think any direction leads to money, status, and sex. Therefore, it would seem to be a matter of what interests me more. They both interest me greatly, as others, including, let's not forget, Orwell and Shakespeare. If time were unlimited, my list could go on. I am just hoping that I am not going to die, or have to give up my reading life, in only a mere couple of years, so that I should have plenty of time to enjoy Lincoln. He is on my special short list of the top three. As for the dream ... I am inclined to think it is ... rather random, though puzzling. Um, maybe it is saying that my whole reading life is a waste of life. But I have never been able to come up with a better answer in all these years. Let me have a dream of that, and we will see what I can do.
monk222: (Rainy: by snorkle_c)
I did a book-blog post, my first in ... weeks?, months? It's been a while. Jay Parini's biography on Robert Frost was next in the queue. I thought I would try to fit in a couple of these a week, along with a couple of entries for my hardcover journals. Now that I am this deep into the Mann universe, maybe I can afford the diversion.

Movies

Nov. 2nd, 2015 03:07 pm
monk222: (Primal Hunger)
That sucked. "Return to Sender", the rape & revenge movie starring Rosamund Pike. That explains why it came on Netflix so quickly. I am so glad that I didn't pay to see it on Amazon. I had my suspicions. I know you cannot count on good sexploitation anymore. And this movie is of the contemporary feminist wave. Surely, people should be able to tell that rape & revenge flicks without the rape, or with no more than the merest hint of rape, do not work. We want the dark shit. This is another movie that is going to have to make its budget on the Lifetime movie channel, where it should have been from the beginning. I don't know how it got a theatrical run, playing to empty rooms everywhere.

Mowing

Nov. 2nd, 2015 03:33 pm
monk222: (Global Warming)
There's Sammy! Now I have all the cats in. I think I will take care of the mowing this afternoon, and try to do both front and back, though I wince at the very thought of the effort required. I have grown so soft and weak (an anorexic teenage girl could kick my ass), I can almost cry over the prospect of such chores. There's no choice, though. I cannot cry to Pop, "I cannot do it, please, I just cannot do it!" I cannot stand to see my 73-year-old Pop having to mow for me. Besides, that would probably be the end of my Amazon money. I just have to fight my way through it. At least this should be the last mow until next spring, or, at worst, the next to the last mow. After all the rain we have had lately, along with the late summer, I wouldn't be surprised to see another growth spurt from the lawn in the next week or two.

Chores

Nov. 2nd, 2015 10:32 pm
monk222: (Primal Hunger)
I did the job. The 'fall back' hour that we lost over the weekend ending up hurting me a bit. I finished mowing before seven o'clock, but it got dark much faster than I anticipated because of that hour. No harm, though. I just hope I am done with the lawn for a few --- oh, no, I just remembered there are the leaves. They have not begun to fall in earnest yet, but that will be good for a couple of winter mowings I will have to put in. Well, if life were easy, we'd take it for granted, right?

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