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Sunny, warm, a little windy. 86 degrees (30 degrees Celsius), but with the humidity it feels as if it's 93.
Do not have to go anywhere today, which makes me very happy. Still reading Dodsworth and still really enjoying it. Lewis was incredibly good at sketching out a character in just the space of a small paragraph -- like his description of Mr. A.B. Hurd, an American car executive who's lived in England for six years:
Mr. Hurd was a round-faced, horn-spectacled, heavy-voiced man who believed that he had become so English in manner and speech that no one could possibly take him for an American, and who, if he lived in England for fifty years, would never be taken for anything save an American. He looked so like every fourth man to be found at the Zenith Athletic Club that traveling Midwesterners grew homesick just at the sight of him, and the homesicker when they heard his good, meaty, uninflected Iowa voice.
Heh. And in other news ... study finds many ancient Scandinavian rune carvings are absolute gibberish. No, really.
Do not have to go anywhere today, which makes me very happy. Still reading Dodsworth and still really enjoying it. Lewis was incredibly good at sketching out a character in just the space of a small paragraph -- like his description of Mr. A.B. Hurd, an American car executive who's lived in England for six years:
Mr. Hurd was a round-faced, horn-spectacled, heavy-voiced man who believed that he had become so English in manner and speech that no one could possibly take him for an American, and who, if he lived in England for fifty years, would never be taken for anything save an American. He looked so like every fourth man to be found at the Zenith Athletic Club that traveling Midwesterners grew homesick just at the sight of him, and the homesicker when they heard his good, meaty, uninflected Iowa voice.
Heh. And in other news ... study finds many ancient Scandinavian rune carvings are absolute gibberish. No, really.