Off to teach The Cenci this morning. How many years have I waited for this? I wonder how it looks to them. Wouldn't it be fun to be a Shelley scholar? Oh this lion is so Shelleyan.
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So easy to give up Wednesdays to forgetting, but that's the trouble I'm working to avoid, eh? What to remember. An intense discussion about mainstream poetry, Spoken Word, Jeffrey McDaniel, and publishing with Andres. Brian read over half of O'Hara's "Second Avenue" aloud to me, spontaneously, as it ought to be read, and I was entranced--all the while. Nic showed up to say hi and for no reason I can place I took him to Chambers Street to see my abandoned building. Then we talked for a long time. And we needed more time. So that was good. Met with the three--Stefen, Hilary, Chris--to talk about Tost's book and again was thrilled by how it works. Had dinner with D, L, M, N, and remembered I can tell.
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From Nic:
the Pepsi penguin is from, as you guessed, a special Christmas edition can design from 1994. Check it out here: http://www.foxinsocks.com/pepsi/pepsi3.html (it's the eighth one from the top of the page, labelled "Penguin Sliding Down Pepsi Globe"). So, twelve years old. That's still a pretty long time, or at least it seems so to me.***
Twelve years, undisturbed. Impossible, almost.
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Thank you, S. Very thankful for you this morning. --And you will let me know when anything here ought not to be here, right?
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