Wednesday 28 July 2010
Day 3 - Reading
Finished Dead Souls and loved the conversation in Part 2 between Chichikov and the General. 'What's he writing a book about?' 'Generals.' 'Generals? What kind of book about generals? A general book about generals or a book with portraits of individual generals or a book about the generals of 1812?' 'The generals of 1812.' In a book shop near the university, we bought Absurdistan and a book of conversations between Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said - I'm now reading the latter.
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Dear Kate,
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy that you continue to write notes here again!
Do I understand correctly you began a trip to Russia (via Poland and Belarus)?
Dear Michael,
ReplyDeleteYes - currently in Warsaw, then heading to Minsk (for 48 hours), then Moscow and St. P (for 2 weeks), then Vilnius, Bialystok and Gdansk. How are things with you? Are you still in Edinburgh?
Kate