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Saturday, August 17th, 2024 08:26 pmDreamed again of That Place I Used to Live In where I left all my books for years and years. Though this time I'd come back to it and was renting it with my upstairs neighbours Jeanette and Juliana from Brunswick. But my books weren't in the closet where I'd left them, the shelves were totally bare, and I was perplexed at what the landlord could have done with them. But on the third floor of the house/ apartment were these drawers and in them were-- something thin stored on their sides: record albums or anime cels or maybe comicbooks in plastic? which were as good as my books, I think.
Rain and thunder at intervals all day. Stop and start, sun comes out and then dark again. Streets have flooded out west though I never noticed the downpours here, either because they didn't happen or because I've been on the couch all afternoon, looking at books from-- um, not my childhood exactly, but adolescence certainly. Egypt Under the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell, in which ancient Egyptian generals become old Malaysia hands from Blighty oh dear, and The Last of the Wine, whose print is much tinier than my 17 year old self remembers. Have never been able to read Renault with an open mind since (her early 70s snarking at feminism in The Mask of Apollo) an early master's thesis I read that said, basically, all Renault's heroes have daddy issues and Theseus is a dork. They do and he is.
Rain and thunder at intervals all day. Stop and start, sun comes out and then dark again. Streets have flooded out west though I never noticed the downpours here, either because they didn't happen or because I've been on the couch all afternoon, looking at books from-- um, not my childhood exactly, but adolescence certainly. Egypt Under the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell, in which ancient Egyptian generals become old Malaysia hands from Blighty oh dear, and The Last of the Wine, whose print is much tinier than my 17 year old self remembers. Have never been able to read Renault with an open mind since (her early 70s snarking at feminism in The Mask of Apollo) an early master's thesis I read that said, basically, all Renault's heroes have daddy issues and Theseus is a dork. They do and he is.
