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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

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🦋 Translate

I get home from the Spanish-language meetup this evening -- I mostly listened, talked a little bit -- and find a new post up on Saramago's blog, starting out "To write is to translate. It will always be, even when we're writing in our own language." The rest of it's a little beyond my meagre translating abilities, but interesting stuff.

Reading The History of the Siege of Lisbon tonight, I found another reference to the Blindness epigraph --

... Nonsense, I've simply done a little reading, I've amused or educated myself little by little, discovering the difference between looking and seeing, between seeing and observing, ...

posted evening of Wednesday, July first, 2009
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➪ At A Supposedly Fun Blog, Ezra Klein and several other smart young bloggers are reading Infinite Jest -- SEK cautiously supports this enterprise but has some questions. Ben Wolfson is also reading it.
➪ Ellen writes a short piece for Barista Kids on dealing with kids and boredom.
Boredom is disengagement. Being aware of your own disengagement is a powerful thing. It poses all kinds of interesting questions. Do you need to feel engaged every second? What can you do if you want to feel connected?
➪ Janet Maslin likes Conquest of the Useless, Herzog's new memoir of the making of Fitzcarraldo.
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