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Oy sort of all kinds excellent, da? Peregrination and pondering and how the feet shape and are shaped by road, and the road is as well the wandering of the intellect. All poets were perambularors.

Tis Miyazaki-themed-toned.

I may choose to buy this rather than library it again.

...a skip-jigging necessity each year.

One does not simply forget to reread this each year.

I took a class with this bloke; and reading this book is almost as good as stepping back into it, today.

...Megan Whalen Turner recommended it.

This is mad good.

It has a Douglas-Adams-esque impishness, but starts to lose the Adams-esque pithiness. I wonder if it's partly due to the prose. But I think it's tone. Valente manages the longwinded, digressive Victorian-style for her fairy tale books because they keep a fairy tale's levity. But Space Oddity only has post-modernism's bite...and it's hard to be bitten for a sentence a full-five-line-paragraph-long.

...it really was. Which is why I skimmed and then skipped to the end. And that's the first did-not-finish of the year.

"And if not, He is still good." (Dn 3:18) came to mind. But I never have any additional words after reading this book.