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Whoa.\u00a0 84.\u00a0 Sometimes I think of the seasons as if we were on a moveable patch of earth.\u00a0 On a day like today our patch got shifted on the seasonal moving belt to about Georgia.\u00a0 Last week we were parked above the Canadian border for a while.\u00a0 Who knows where we’ll go next.<\/p>\n
I have passed the 50% mark in reading Monkey:\u00a0 Journey to the West.\u00a0\u00a0 That means I’m somewhere around 1,000+ pages in.\u00a0 Hard to tell on the Kindle, though I know precisely how far I am in percentages.\u00a0 This book is funny, wise, rollicking, supernatural and just a bit cynical.\u00a0 Well, maybe a lot.\u00a0 Yesterday I bought a book that features English works on the Chinese classics.\u00a0 It has a lot to say about these favorites, but I’ve still found no commentary that helps me get, say, the wood, water, earth, fire, metal sequence or the names of some characters or the works referenced as if everyone knew them.\u00a0 Next up, probably next year, is The Dream of the Red Chamber, the best of the six, in the opinion of several writers.<\/p>\n
While hunting for a picture to go with this post, I discovered that Neil Gaiman, author of the Sandman graphic novels and several fantasy novels started, back in March, on a screenplay for a trilogy based on Monkey.\u00a0 Should be interesting.<\/p>\n
If you feel like you have the time, both Monkey and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will more than repay the effort.\u00a0 There’s a different culture at work here, sometimes a radically different one, but, at other times, radically similar.\u00a0 That’s the power of reading works from other cultures, insights you can’t get any other way.<\/p>\n
A slow day.\u00a0 Business meeting in the morning.\u00a0 We scheduled a couple of days in July, post Kate’s second hip surgery, to go over our expenditures in the first six months of retirement, check them against our budget, see where we need to adjust.\u00a0 Big fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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