Reading Around

Missing the Salt

From Beowulf to Milton's Satan!

800 or so years in 16 or so weeks:

Literary Survey

and Vision-Quest (or so I hope)

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Planning The Class

We’ll start the semester with a viewing of Ridley Scott’s first feature film The Duellists, and then proceed to the following texts in an order I haven’t quite fathomed or fashioned yet:

Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing;

Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac;

Byron’s Selected Poems;

143 rather short poems; 

a handful of stories by de Maupassant;

a handful of tales by Poe;

Shelley’s Frankenstein;

and Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.

Recent Reading

Captain, Needing Solace

Captain, reminding me that I am not supposed to be away from home for more than a day at a time.  I'd just come back from three days down in Monterey this summer.

He may not be a dog, but he's a good boy.

Lady

Rising and Falling: Purple Urchin, Abalone

Increasing, marauding hoards of purple urchins cause kelp barrens, which leads to undernourished abalone, depleted populations of abalone and all the other creatures that belong in the kelp-ecosystems.

Very sad.

Entitled

"Now that I see your full name, I have to say this:
'Matthew Duckworth . . .
. . . Earl of Sandwich.'"

--clerk at the hardware store

Sub-Tidal Still-Life

My mood improves, goes up, the more time I spend down below . . . .

Random Paddle Shots

Wishing I were on this jaunt right now . . . .

Flowers

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.

My mother and father happily visited these gardens many times.

Pillars of Atlantis

The names and geography of the adventure tales of my childhood are never that far away from me.

Jelly + Fish

Crab Dance

Sofia

My trusty steed.

August 5th adventures.