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Whoop! Blog is fixed! ;-D <-- (That's a really happy smiley face, if case it needed translating)I've been skipping through lists on Amazon after looking up Novalis and found around 300 authors I'm dying to get to know: Dante, Aldo Busi, Whitman, Rimbaud, Mary Gentle, Goethe, Virginia Woolf... *sigh* OK, so that's not 300 but the whole list takes up a lot of room. Now, to complete my lovely flight off into intellectual fantasyland (only slightly negated by the sounds of INXS and Rooster in the background)... I found an ancient copy of Milton's poems at a second-hand bookstore in Timaru. Ah, that wonderful old-book smell... It's gorgeous, the kind of thing you just want to frame and hang on your wall, all gilded edges and embossing and coloured borders. It has the entire text of Paradise Lost and all his other works (in English, Latin and Italian) and a story of his life; much better than the copies I was looking at in modern bookstores, and about $50 cheaper! ^ - ^
Oh, more wordy stuff: have been devouring the library lately so there are a whole lot more 'books of the moment' in the sidebar. Holidays are great for lazing around, and that teenage routine of sleep till 10, stay up until midnight has a lot going for it. *winces* Hmmm, perhaps a job is needed...
I was gonna give an account of our five-night adventure through the South Island *look up* but I think it may be a little late for that... So I'll leave with a "Yay! Online again!" and I hope you had a great Xmas.
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