That I’m not surprised: Sensing trouble was afoot, Lynch told the students: “I don’t know what he said, but I think I understand that he used a word from the Third Reich. Let’s just look at it this way, it’s a new world now.” I’m drafting a paper, in between several other projects at the [...]
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As I have a scholarly interest in Le Carré, I’ve noticed over the years that Clive James’s opinion of his writing, delivered in the New York Review, has been unduly influential. James suggested that his early work was superior to the later because of increasing bloat. Here’s a related example from his review of The [...]
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That night he and I had dinner and he told me what had happened. He had kept up with Ali for a couple of miles into the country upriver from the compound at N’Sele, but then he had begun to tire, and finally he stopped, his chest heaving, and he watched Ali disappear into the [...]
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I finally got a chance to watch this last night. The first third is a camp parable about Maynard Keynes; the remainder concerns espials and submersibles. Bracketing all this fun is:
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Installed the new hard drive today with only the aid of a metric jeweler, a Natural (as my forefathers called them), a potter’s vise, three hearty curses, and six MND 3.1.889(s). I’ve also noticed that John Wesley Harding contains more hypercorrect “whoms” than you’ll find in the usual album: Am waiting on a USB case [...]
I mentioned in the last post that I was somewhat dreading having to deal with a computer manufacturer’s customer service regarding my laptop. I suspected that I would have to endure hours of pointless flowchart following after having already established what the problem was. But, to Gateway’s credit, the guy I spoke to was very [...]
Is where I spent my weekend, and it was a good conference, filled with smart, friendly* people discussing interesting things. Smaller conferences seem to be much better, ceteris paribus. Further experiments with my laptop seem to indicate that it may have been a hardware failure, though I’m not about to absolve Vista until more facts [...]
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