Snowburst

Today it’s been snowing like mad all day long, so I didn’t much feel like going out. After some movie-review blogging, I settled into study of Ezra Pound — I swear, for those interested, a big update is coming with all kinds of observations on the Cantos since last time: our group has finished A Draft of XXX Cantos and is now working on Eleven New Cantos: XXXI-XLI. Somewhere in the middle of studying Pound, Lime came over and hung out, and after spending the later afternoon and evening here, I walked her to the bus stop; it was the …

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The Strangest Dream

I just woke from the strangest dream. I was at a dinner party at which there were a large number of political refugees in attendance. It was a kind of international pot-luck dinner and though it was quite relaxed, not formal or stagged or anything, it seemed to me as if each person told his or her story to me (personally, individually) as I tried his or her home country’s food. To make things more interesting, all kinds of nonsensical border wars were mentioned, such as border wars between Lebanon and Afghanistan (the story, rather harrowing, was told by a …

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