Reading at night; why we read what we read: Graham, Scott, Austen, Trollope, Crabbe even

[misssylviadrake]

Dear friends and readers,

In two days teaching is done. What is the hard thing for me -- though paradoxically I often enjoy it, am exhilarated, it's a strain, an ordeal -- will be over until very late August. And then just one section for the fall, one I've taught many times before. The admiral used to insist it was not over until he finished the

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[misssylviadrake]

I got two kindly meant letters. One asserted that "real life" or physical face-to-face friendships are real and what we know on the Net unreal or false, though I agree much on facebook and other friendship social networking sites is "unsatisfying. Abrupt, disjointed "chats"--a feeling of *absence* more than *presence*; everything theoretically "on" but--dull and empty; not a bit like striking up a friendship and talking and laughing for hours; not a bit like the exchange of ideas in a good discussion, professional or otherwise

Reading at night

[misssylviadrake]

From another friend, on Scott: "I read your delightful blog on reading at night