Ahh...my work table, I mean my kitchen table, is clean enough to mess up again. Halloween is only a week away, so I don't think I'll be working on costumes. There just isn't enough time.
I'm in the middle of several books right now. One of them is Deep Roots in a Time of Frost by Patrick Curry. This is the most intellectually challenging book I have read in a long, long time. It is a collection of essays of literary criticism more or less about Tolkien themes. I love this book so much! I love that I have to read it with a dictionary close at hand. I love that I have to read some paragraphs four or five times before I almost understand what he is trying to say. These essays are written for far more educated people than I, but if I strip out all the tangential clauses until I get down to the basic sentences, then add the clauses back one at a time, I find I can keep up. Did I already say that I love this book? Yeah, I think I did.
And this is what I do for fun when I'm too tired to write.
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