[NON BLOG] Little Things

Thanks go out to danthered and S. for helping me move D.'s old bookcase in. Having more furniture is nice; having help getting new furniture is as good, in a different kind of way.

Last week, I bought two books, Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting and Torgny Lindgren's Sweetness. I've read Spark's novel--a meditation on the Lord Lucan case--several years before, when it first came out. I like Spark generally, have since I read The Driver's Seat for an upper-level undergraduate English course; her piquancy is something I'd like for myself. I hadn't read Sweetness before this week, but in several ways (the self-conscious style, the location in the Swedish north) it reminds me of Atwood's Surfacing. And of course, in almost all other ways it's completely different.

David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives and The Waterfront Journals came in today for me at the Toronto Reference Library.

I'll have to comment on these sooner, or else later.

[NON BLOG] A Quote to Remember

De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.