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Diary
Into town yesterday to join a review of the SF studio mounted by Cal Poly SLO for its upper-division architecture and planning students. The teams I reviewed looked at site northwest of the Oakland BART station. I came away knowing much more about that area than I did before. Many of the reviewers also show up at Masters of Urban Design reviews at UC Berkeley CED. Old home week, as they say.
Diary
Some days are productive. Today was one. This evening, I finished Janet Malcolm's book on Stein and Toklas, found on a shelf in the barn. Malcolm writes wonderfully. It's hot in Sicily, my wife reported, based on a text from our daughter. The weather here is superb.
Diary
Late this afternoon, in the barn, I read the first of my many diaries, from autumn 1973. I was in graduate school. Most of the entries relate to my research, but it's dotted with personal asides, I Ching queries, and cashflow calculations. My abilities as a researcher impress me, decades later. I can see why my patron kept me on.
Photo of the Day.
"On 10 June 1944, six days after the liberation, Prince Filippo Doria Pamphilj became mayor of Rome and gave an address from the balcony of the Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill. 'Allow me to summarize my appeal for a spirit of civic and brotherly love, and for a sincere desire for mutual understanding and harmony of souls to which, I am sure, the memory of so many of our dead commits us, ijn two words addressed as a Roman to Romas: volemose bene!' Like the word sprezzatura - and Prince Doria had that - volemose bene is not easily translated. 'We must love one another' gets us only part way there."
Inigo Thomas, "Diary," London Review of Books, 17 April 2025, p. 45.
Diary
A late lunch or an early dinner with my wife, our oldest son, and his wife at Bilotti, a northern Italian restaurant at the far end of College Ave. in Oakland. A pasta-dominated menu, but a friendly, informal place. Good conversation. We drove over, they walked. Crosstown traffic these days ia daunting. Glad we left early. Sunny today, thank goodness. The weather has mostly been July-like and yesterday was cloudy and freezing. It affects me, a human barometer.
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Photo of the day: tardigrades (AKA waterbears).
Gurusha Mengi's photo of me addressing the MUD Class of 2026.
Diary
Cold and overcast today. I had a long talk over Zoom with a friend in Rome, with some follow-up. The day before, I spent doing the final proofing of an article I wrote with her and another friend. The journal is UK-based but the sub-editors are in India, a supportive bunch based on my back-and-forth with them. The publisher has one of those "automated" systems that puts the burden on the author(s) and is both cumbersome to operate and dodgy. I persevered, then begged the sub-editor to give me a pass for putting some of my edits in "comments." I'm back to reading the literary reviews, more than a year behind once again. I tried to read a book on the romantic poets of Provence by Ezra Pound last night, but found it hard going. For a book on poetry, it's oddly unpoetic, lapsing into long prose glosses. The Latin he throws in is not always translated (and I don't read Latin). But there it is, the phrase Eliot borrows in The Wasteland to praise its editor.
Professor Louise Mozingo, who chairs the Masters in Urban Design (MUD) program at U.C. Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED)…
My talk.
With John Ellis and Chunman Li at a gathering of the Masters in Urban Design Class of 2026, where I gave a talk earlier today. John acted as an advisor to Ms. Li and others, and I served as a critic in the summer 2025 and spring 2026 studio reviews.
Diary
Heard a harpsichord recital by Maryse Carlin at the Madeleine. Wrote a short talk for a gathering of the MUD class of 2026 at Cal. A friend mentioned George Kennan's diary. I was thinking of reading a biography of him, but the diary might be better.
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Into town to have lunch with a visiting friend at Zuni Café. An article in the WSJ about a small publisher led me to write him. "Interesting, but not for us," he replied. Surprised to get a reply at all. Not surprised that my books aren't a fit. It's why I self-publish.