We sat through Question Hour in Stortinget (our Parliament) today, though I am feeling entirely too Christmassy to be eloquent, or even coherent, about it. And I have a craving to read Dickens, again. "A Christmas Carol", to be spesific ( Read more... )

I've taken my leave of Dickens for the time being, and should really pick up me essay on "The Other Foot" again. But that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon. French poetry on DA is actuely interesting in comparison, despite a few lingual difficulties ( Read more... )

Today has been quite lovely. Got ut at around 9, after approximately an hour of reading Dickens in bed - page 243, and counting. Proceeded, post-breakfast, with making notes on the American electoral system, the parties, interest organisations, Presidential elections and a few lines on checks and balances (fondly christened "checks and fucking, or ( Read more... )

I've read Nabokov, and now I'm moving on to "Bleak House" and Dickens. "Laughter in the Dark" or "Kamera Obskura" is entertaining at times (particularly when he brings out the "Nabokovian parenthesis"), but too early a work to be truly good - unlike Lolita, he is not yet mature and in power, he has not yet perfected his abilities. I contemplated ( Read more... )