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Finally falling into a steady pace of reading again—lost in the labyrinth of Borges’ intellect. 

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08042020

Thank gods for Ulysses Annotated. Every little reference has a note or commentary. Don Gifford and Rober Seidman created a great resource. Allows more time for reading. 

p. 144/771 

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07262020

Spent midday on the outside porch listening to the rain and taking notes across disciplines. Making pathways through Joyce’s Ulysses.

p: 95/771

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{08122020}

Building connections between Ancients and Moderns. What would Nietzsche say to Lucretius or Plato? Where would Stephen Dedalus be without the Greeks? 

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04082012

An image from a sense of past security. I could sit here for hours reading in the shade of my parents’ backgarden. 

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07212020

Oh, James Joyce, — what a leviathan you have created! 

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{08292020}

The effect of death upon those that live is always strange, and often terrible in the havoc it makes with innocent desires (32).

—Virginia Woolf, "Reminiscences,"    Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings

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07252020

The moment was just right. Too many years I have tried to capture an image of these birds in flight. But today, finally: a hesitant leap and then awkward beauty skimming the surface of the subdivision’s landscape. 

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