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Friday, August 9th, 2024 08:53 pmThe plumber came most carefully upon his hour, when I was upstairs because I expected the phone alert to happen before he arrived, not as he was actually climbing the stairs. But he replaced the flap in the toilet and I hope that will work, and it's under warranty so I didn't have to pay anything, so yay. By the looks of it, Debbie dumped hardly any water on us at all. Rained for an hour or two in the morning and that was it. No lakes on the Don Valley Expressway and buses rerouting, so I hope no flooded basements either. And now it's cool and dry and I've opened windows upstairs and down.
In the scratchiness and mug of yesterday I reread Voyage of the Dawn Treader, my favourite of the Narnia books ever since 3rd year Medieval Latin when a friend pointed out that Dawn Treader is an immram like Navigatio Sancti Brendani: a sea voyage to the next world, stopping at various islands along the way. Didn't hurt that right after finishing that text I went out to Newfoundland to visit my cousin, which is as close to being in Ireland as you can com without actually crossing the Atlantic. Unfortunately Lewis still leaves me in a foul mood so no, will not reread the rest.
In the scratchiness and mug of yesterday I reread Voyage of the Dawn Treader, my favourite of the Narnia books ever since 3rd year Medieval Latin when a friend pointed out that Dawn Treader is an immram like Navigatio Sancti Brendani: a sea voyage to the next world, stopping at various islands along the way. Didn't hurt that right after finishing that text I went out to Newfoundland to visit my cousin, which is as close to being in Ireland as you can com without actually crossing the Atlantic. Unfortunately Lewis still leaves me in a foul mood so no, will not reread the rest.
