The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. – Randall Jarrell
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White Man in Africa, 1997
Dug this up when Annie D showed me a YouTube of a baby rhino– white? — in S Africa, in a similar predicament. Back in ’97, when it was permissible if naive to think Mugabe was not a monster (such writers as Peter Godwin had already laid out the truth), when Zimbabwe had one of …
Birdage
Rio with his ball. He still has down. I am not used to hulking 38 ounce tiercels and their prolonged infancy- biggest male falcon I have ever flown, and slowest to mature. Though it may take him into the rains… cool, in several senses…
Survivors
Two tough animals.
Domesticity
Rio seems to be looking over Libby’s shoulder as she reviews my work on the Mac.
“…all Dinosaurs had feathers”
The report (HT John Wilson) begins: “The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers so this new find indicates that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.” The big thing here is the “all” I have been …
Snapshots from Rocky Mountain National Park
We hadn’t been in a while and decided to do a day trip yesterday. I think we need to visit more often.
Another Jarrell Quote
“Read at will.”
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“Art is long and critics are the insects of a day.” – Randall Jarrell
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“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”– Raymond Aron