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“An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard” - Henry David Thoreau

Reading, travel, running.
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“In fact, far from the Ogre or Troll his son makes him out to be, Charles Sr. is a wistful and spiritual person. He believes that bread is alive, that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a single purposeful individual,-that each Loaf is so organi

I’ve loved seeing everybody’s #nameninechallenge ! So I don’t often reread books, but this list includes a few of the books I have reread or feel like I come back to often.

Underworld — I’ve seen this in a few other fo

On each subsequent read of The Odyssey, I realize the poem is as much about the nature of storytelling as about a man (a complicated man) on a journey home. In the epic, there are a few bards as characters, singing epics to audiences. At a feast, Ody

Diet Pynchon might just be the Pynchon for me. This book was so much fun. The California history and cultural landscape, the subtle allusions and obscure history, the hallucinations and syntactical acid flashbacks. I’m planning to buy a second

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