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Five O'Clock Light
Jan. 11th, 2011 07:43 am‘course now I’m sick as a drowned rat, coughing, sneezing, drowning in my own natural effluvia.
B brought me a digital screener of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit. Movie frankly underwhelmed. Central conceit of the novel always felt revisionist to me, namely that in the late 1860s, a smart 14 year old girl would seem precocious. In the late 1860s, a smart 14 year old might even be married and a mother: Adolescence didn’t exist then in the same sense that it exists now, as a kind of socio-cultural-economic holding tank.
Rueben only scored 3 out of 10 on his ESL Literacy test. Damn! I thought he’d do higher.
Joseph Campbell novel creeping along but my prose style is not very inspiring.
I fucking hate winter. Currently a well nigh tropical 18 degrees out. Six more inches of snow expected tonight.
Though I did notice something interesting yesterday – three weeks ago, on the longest night of the year, it was pitch black by 4:30 in the afternoon. But yesterday it was still light at 5, and three weeks from now it will be light at 6. I suppose the deal is that when spring finally comes under these conditions, you really appreciate it.
B brought me a digital screener of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit. Movie frankly underwhelmed. Central conceit of the novel always felt revisionist to me, namely that in the late 1860s, a smart 14 year old girl would seem precocious. In the late 1860s, a smart 14 year old might even be married and a mother: Adolescence didn’t exist then in the same sense that it exists now, as a kind of socio-cultural-economic holding tank.
Rueben only scored 3 out of 10 on his ESL Literacy test. Damn! I thought he’d do higher.
Joseph Campbell novel creeping along but my prose style is not very inspiring.
I fucking hate winter. Currently a well nigh tropical 18 degrees out. Six more inches of snow expected tonight.
Though I did notice something interesting yesterday – three weeks ago, on the longest night of the year, it was pitch black by 4:30 in the afternoon. But yesterday it was still light at 5, and three weeks from now it will be light at 6. I suppose the deal is that when spring finally comes under these conditions, you really appreciate it.
