I finished Beowulf last week. It really has stood the test of time, and I'm now able to read enough Anglo-Saxon to get the gist of things, so I can better appreciate the work of the anonymous master (or, more likely, series of masters) who first crafted the poem ( Read more... )

I felt really good this last week, better than I have in a decade, with no real reason for it. Maybe it's just that the novel's going well -- I think most people are giving up on me ever finishing the thing, but it's so much better in this version than any of the others I've shown to people that I think the progress exceeds all previous progress ( Read more... )

so I'm reading Beowulf, and trying to puzzle out the Anglo-Saxon before I cheat and read the the translation on the opposite page ( Read more... )

So, to clarify, I think as usual the party will be kind of a drop-in, since afternoon is better for some, and evening for others. I was thinking about opening the doors around one in the afternoon on Sunday ^_ ( Read more... )