Day Seventy-Four
Canterbury Tales Page: 207
Essays Orwell Page: 373
I didn’t actually do my reading tonight because nobody came to here it…well Kayla came but we ended up visiting instead of reading, so that’s another 20 pages I’m behind… On Tuesday I read in one of Orwell’s essays, “Inside the Whale”, this commentary on Joyce’s Ulysses. “It would be absurd, for instance, to look on Ulysses as merely a show-up of the horror of modern life…Joyce actually is more of a ‘pure artist’ than most writers. But Ulysses could not have been written by someone who was merely dabbling with word-patterns; it is the product of a special vision of life, the vision of a Catholic who has lost his faith.” And I just love it when one of the works I’m reading comments on or quotes from another. Chaucer quotes Dante and Virgil, not to mention numerous quotations and allusions to Scripture and while I don’t always pick up on the classical references, I always enjoy the ease with which I “get” the Biblical ones.
I keep intending to post some pictures of the boys but I’ve been posting down at Veritas and either don’t have the camera card with me or don’t have the laptop that the camera card is compatible with. For those family members that look here for photos, I will get around to it…eventually.