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I'm enjoying GENJI so much. It's a leisurely read: I'm not feeling pressure to find out what happens next so much as luxuriating in where we are right here and now. Lots of appreciation and admiration for Dennis Washburn's translation and editorial work.

I raced through the first half, but now have slowed down: I want to savor this marvel of a novel, each paragraph, each sentence. I don't know how it will conclude, but I am loving it so very much.

Have read: Le Père Goriot, Le Colonel Chabert, La Messe de l'athée, L'Interdiction, Le Contrat de marriage & Autre étude de femme.

Will start Urusle Mirouët soon, after a brief pause from Balzac.

Am LOVING this stuff!

Washington Square & Portrait of a Lady down; Bostonians to go. The endurance James demands of us is very well rewarded. Just.