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Muggy achy weather so I didn't go out. Broke up boxes for recycle, after a month or so, which is about the extent of Go Me for the day. If it's dryer tomorrow, will try for my 3 month blood draw and a wash on the line. This not helped by suddenly spasming adductors in my left leg. But wash must happen, either here or at the laundromat, because am running out of socks and about to run out of underwear.
Finished my umpteenth reread of Network Effect. I don't think it's just tablet reading: I can no more visualize these space stations etc. than an aphantastic can. Still makes for pleasant reading.
Continue along with Inventing the Renaissance, now I'm in the chapter about individual personalities. Did not know that both Poliziano and della Mirandola have been proved to be poisoned, though of course their contemporaries said so. Am quite willing to believe it was Piero the Unfortunate's doing though really, it could have been anyone. The amazing thing is that so many Renaissance men survived to old age, before syphilis became commonplace and cut them off in their 40s. Couldn't have happened to a nastier bunch of people, but I still *mind* about Mirandola.
Continue on also with amusing Walpole and 'grows on me' Emma. She really is the one Austen heroine we see growing morally. Elizabeth has every reason to think badly of D'Arcy: she's intellectually wrong, but not morally. Ditto Catherine. Elinor and Fanny of course are always Right but Repulsive. While Emma gets to live and learn, and one can almost say, Poor Emma.
Finished my umpteenth reread of Network Effect. I don't think it's just tablet reading: I can no more visualize these space stations etc. than an aphantastic can. Still makes for pleasant reading.
Continue along with Inventing the Renaissance, now I'm in the chapter about individual personalities. Did not know that both Poliziano and della Mirandola have been proved to be poisoned, though of course their contemporaries said so. Am quite willing to believe it was Piero the Unfortunate's doing though really, it could have been anyone. The amazing thing is that so many Renaissance men survived to old age, before syphilis became commonplace and cut them off in their 40s. Couldn't have happened to a nastier bunch of people, but I still *mind* about Mirandola.
Continue on also with amusing Walpole and 'grows on me' Emma. She really is the one Austen heroine we see growing morally. Elizabeth has every reason to think badly of D'Arcy: she's intellectually wrong, but not morally. Ditto Catherine. Elinor and Fanny of course are always Right but Repulsive. While Emma gets to live and learn, and one can almost say, Poor Emma.