The READIN Family Album
Me and a frog (August 30, 2004)

READIN

Jeremy's journal

Even now, I persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

— Jeffrey Eugenides


(This is a page from my archives)
➻Front page
➻More recent posts
➻Older posts
More posts about:
➻José Saramago
➻Reading
➻Don Quixote
➻Miguel de Cervantes

Archives index
Subscribe to RSS
Follow on Facebook

This page renders best in Firefox (or Safari, or Chrome)

READIN

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.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

READIN has been visited approximately 104,652 times since October, 2007.

Lanzarote

This is a funny bit of information: The island where José Saramago lives (and about which he has published a series of journals) is Lanzarote, in the Canaries. I had never realized what this name is until I was reading along in Don Quixote just now:

...puesto que no quisiera descubrirme fasta que las fazañas fechas en vuestro servicio y pro me descubrieran, la fuerza de acomodar al propósito presente este romance viejo de Lanzarote...

...given that I had not wanted to declare myself until the deeds I had performed in your service made me known, the necessity of adapting to the present circumstances that old romance of Lancelot...

I'm giggling now thinking about Saramago living on an island named after Sir Lancelot. Probably just me...

posted afternoon of Saturday, September 26th, 2009
➳ More posts about José Saramago
➳ More posts about Reading
➳ More posts about Don Quixote
➳ More posts about Miguel de Cervantes

Respond:

Name:
E-mail:
(will not be displayed)
Link:
Remember info

Drop me a line! or, sign my Guestbook.
    •
Check out Ellen's writing at Patch.com.

What do you think?

John Emerson, Jeremy on Beat (2 comments)

What's of interest:

➪ At Acephalous, Dr. Kaufman writes up a new Literary History of the U.S. -- one co-edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, one whose prose sings, or "Mostly sings -- sings more than academic prose usually does." Sounds like great stuff!
➪ Unpublished Bolaño: Alvy Singer links to the story El contorno de ojo at 60 Watts, illustrated with a cool likeness. Second post promised with commentary.

Also a column by Chilean journalist Carolina Zuñiga, who says she wept when she first read this story.

➪ Roy Edroso is taking a few days off from his Village Voice blogging gig and has some really choice posts up at Alicublog. "You can see Dostoevsky looking down from the clouds, nodding solemnly, with an arm slung over Aaron Spelling's shoulder."
(Other links of interest at my Google Reader page. It's recommended!)

Where to go from here...

Comix
Blogs
Music
Texts
Woodworking
Programming
South Orange
Friends and Family
readinsinglepost