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Taking up history books into the hit-and-run reading may have been too ambitious, even the good narrative ones. Monk just needs to have pure sugar on hand. To think: he was going to stick to the exalted poetry of Homer and Shakespeare.
I only hope that books like "Magic Mountain," "David Copperfield," and "Of Human Bondage" would work, and that it is enough for it to be a story. But who knows? I wouldn't bet on it, that's for sure.
As far as "Citizens" goes, Monk definitely wants to finish his second reading of it, but is uncertain how. The first thought is just to drop it into the weekday reading, once we finish the story of Carthage and Rome in the Roman history text. However, with the "Aenied" coming up in a couple of weeks, "Citizens" might make perfect hit-and-run reading then, since the poem is such pretty fiction in its own right.
I do not know. The reading life is up in the air, as usual. Part of the current complications is that Monk is thinking about dropping his practice of reading the poem and an accompanying exegetic book over the same time, opting instead to read the exegetic books on their own, and he would like to read "Reading Vergil's Aeneid" before beginning Fagles' translation. Since he would like to get into Fagles' book as soon as he can, he needs to start the exegetic text soon, like last week.
As I said, all is in the air again. Maybe a plan will come out in the clear light of morning sometime. This is just a more elaborate form of twittering, laying out the play of mind at a particular moment for an ongoing problem.
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Taking up history books into the hit-and-run reading may have been too ambitious, even the good narrative ones. Monk just needs to have pure sugar on hand. To think: he was going to stick to the exalted poetry of Homer and Shakespeare.
I only hope that books like "Magic Mountain," "David Copperfield," and "Of Human Bondage" would work, and that it is enough for it to be a story. But who knows? I wouldn't bet on it, that's for sure.
As far as "Citizens" goes, Monk definitely wants to finish his second reading of it, but is uncertain how. The first thought is just to drop it into the weekday reading, once we finish the story of Carthage and Rome in the Roman history text. However, with the "Aenied" coming up in a couple of weeks, "Citizens" might make perfect hit-and-run reading then, since the poem is such pretty fiction in its own right.
I do not know. The reading life is up in the air, as usual. Part of the current complications is that Monk is thinking about dropping his practice of reading the poem and an accompanying exegetic book over the same time, opting instead to read the exegetic books on their own, and he would like to read "Reading Vergil's Aeneid" before beginning Fagles' translation. Since he would like to get into Fagles' book as soon as he can, he needs to start the exegetic text soon, like last week.
As I said, all is in the air again. Maybe a plan will come out in the clear light of morning sometime. This is just a more elaborate form of twittering, laying out the play of mind at a particular moment for an ongoing problem.
