Just a few, in preparation for travel to Cayman and I HOPE some writing (it has not been a productive month for me, due mostly I think to factors beyond my control but also to the fact that it is very difficult to sustain full-on sabbaticalage over the entire 18 months that you get if you have a full school year and both summers). More realistic will be to make a detailed but modest list of ALL THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE BY THE END OF AUGUST (including updating fall semester syllabi and making the new syllabus for my spring-semester course in Paris so that we can get it cleared with the Committee on Instruction and have course book information in advance of the relevant dates) and then proceed to tick them off as I can. But I will be happier if I write some Gibbon pages as well....
Madame Bovary's wedding cake. (I am surprised by the negative orientation towards this sort of patisserie, I am a wholehearted fan!)
On a related note, I am still meaning to stop in and get a look at this. I think I have missed my chance to see the ballet....
Favorite items at the Houghton Library.
Subway maps compared to their actual geography
Watch the movements of every refugee on earth since the year 2000
J.G. Ballard, "The Index"!
Michel Houellebecq is not easy to interview
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I am very sad because I thought that Madame Bovary piece was going to be about someone actually making the cake as described...once I got the sense that it wasn't, I hopefully but increasingly disappointedly skimmed...really a cake photograph would have been worth all that erudition and then some.
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