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High temp today, here: 27. Dewpoint then: 18. High dewpoint: 18.
High temp today in TO: 26. Dewpoint then: 19. High dewpoint: 19.
Southeasterlies still keeping TO a touch cooler than KW. Stan turned left across south-central Mexico; it's got a shot to regenerate in the Pacific.
Yankees up 3-0 in the first. Boo.
Bit better than halfway through HS1. Hope to finish it tonight, after a trip to see llamas. Bogging down in the writing around in circles again, though. (But at least there's not D&P's swamp of archival quotation.) Back at Mac, Brian Hendrix told me he thought it could easily be shortened by half. He was right. But in those days, I was treasure-hunting, reading it like a book of aphorisms. (Some people never get beyond that. Maybe I might never have. It's unsettling. What do I do now that it will unsettle me in 10 years to have done?)
Tonight, read an article--actually an excerpt from an excerpt from a lecture--in TLS about the use and abuse of the Book of Revelation in contemporary politics and 20th/21st-century literature. Lots of trite ho-hum about Lord of the Rings and Bush II and whatnot. But it starts with some always-useful reminders of just how unlikely it was that Revelation made it into the canon in the first place. Apparently Luther nearly cut it out of his translation.
Along the way there's a wave of the hand at a "recent poll" in the UK that found that a "frightening" (or something) number of people believe that Hitler was a "figment" (whatever that means) and that the defeat of the Orcs described in LoTR really happened. (Presumably not the same people?)
Yankees up 3-0 in the second. Boo.
High temp today in TO: 26. Dewpoint then: 19. High dewpoint: 19.
Southeasterlies still keeping TO a touch cooler than KW. Stan turned left across south-central Mexico; it's got a shot to regenerate in the Pacific.
Yankees up 3-0 in the first. Boo.
Bit better than halfway through HS1. Hope to finish it tonight, after a trip to see llamas. Bogging down in the writing around in circles again, though. (But at least there's not D&P's swamp of archival quotation.) Back at Mac, Brian Hendrix told me he thought it could easily be shortened by half. He was right. But in those days, I was treasure-hunting, reading it like a book of aphorisms. (Some people never get beyond that. Maybe I might never have. It's unsettling. What do I do now that it will unsettle me in 10 years to have done?)
Tonight, read an article--actually an excerpt from an excerpt from a lecture--in TLS about the use and abuse of the Book of Revelation in contemporary politics and 20th/21st-century literature. Lots of trite ho-hum about Lord of the Rings and Bush II and whatnot. But it starts with some always-useful reminders of just how unlikely it was that Revelation made it into the canon in the first place. Apparently Luther nearly cut it out of his translation.
Along the way there's a wave of the hand at a "recent poll" in the UK that found that a "frightening" (or something) number of people believe that Hitler was a "figment" (whatever that means) and that the defeat of the Orcs described in LoTR really happened. (Presumably not the same people?)
Yankees up 3-0 in the second. Boo.
