It’s better not to try to explain my favorite scenes in Middlemarch and A Tale of Two Cities. It’s not that I can’t describe them so much as that the intense satisfaction that comes from reading them is a result of pages and pages worth of build-up.
Both scenes involve two women whose ideas are [...]
right now
driving down thunder hill road
i wonder
if i’m passing by my future self,
which will be running
down this same road
an hour from now
and then i imagine
all my past and future selves
running and driving
all at the same time
up and down this same road
A dearth of interesting useless fiction in the house has forced me to turn - even on my sick-bed - to literature.
I had some trouble with this work because of a long lapse between my reading of the first and second halves of the novel.
Cooper has his own lapses, however, which place a severe [...]
Task: Transfer just-made pizza dough to hot pizza stone for immediate baking
Previous tries: never attempted
Little-known fact: pizza dough is about as tough to handle as pie crust
Results (short version): Domestic tragedy
Results (longer version):
1) pepperoni on floor between counter and refrigerator
2) pizza landscape resembling aftermath of major earthquake, with sauce boiling along major [...]
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