Pondering

It has been an elightened evening even as the constriction in my throat and the rattle of my chest has been a source of preoccupation. There is much of the Bolano that I embrace madly. I am a savant. I bought the NYRB on the same day that the Believer arrived.

I spent a few hours yesterday absorbing Durrell's translation and editing of Pope Joan. It certainly struck me as akin to The Golden Ass. Durrell had incest issues. Graves couldn't keep it in his trousers. Robert Conquest wrote in to say that it was Kingsley that originated the apocryphal subtitle for The Great Terror.