Len > Recent Status Updates

I would have been in awe of Johnson. I know he would have seen me as a bloke who was there to clean the toilets, yet there is something about Boswell's portrayal of him that makes me wonder to what extent people put up with him. I feel if I had told him that the weather was inclement he would have said, "No, sir, weather is an element and has no rationality. It cannot decide on clemency or its reverse." What an arse.

Sadly this is turning into a song of repetition and boredom.

This is world building gone mad - at least, gone to extremes. Tyrion is holding the story together. He is the only one with a sense of character that transcends heroic fantasy. 700 pages of bloodlust to go - deary me. Bring on the dragons.

I needed to take break in reading this, old age may be unavoidable but I don't recommend it. The essays vary as such things always do. Those by Lucia Stanton and Paul Finkelman on Jefferson and slavery satisfy the lovers of conspiracy theories however, for me, the star essay is by Herbert Sloan: The Earth belongs in Usufruct to the Living. It sounds too academic but it quietly fills a gap between Jefferson and debt.