Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Prostitution in Ancient Rome, Toby Alone, and Looking Fowards to a Nice Cigar

The essay on prostitution in Ancient Rome is coming along nicely, and with luck (or rather, if I stop buggerising around...) I will have it done tonight, as well as the beginning to my Education assignment, which, coming as a great shock to all and sundry, is as utterly useless in measuring my knowledge as all the other ones have been.

I periodically get emails from BORDERS bookstores, which tell me to buy books, and also give me previews and discounts. I downloaded a preview for a book called Toby Alone, by French author Timothee de Fombelle (his first novel) and I really liked what I saw. I purchased it today, and was thrilled to find that the book is very pretty, and the dust jacket is a large foldout map of the setting. It's a translated text, but done by a lady who is apparently quite good, and it seemed to be fine when I read the preview. It has little illustrations, and overall is very nice.

We just purchased a house. We will have cigars on the nbew deck. Looking fowards to it.

Blake.

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