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At first I didn't quite know what I would do with the book, other than read it over and over again. My distrust of history then was still strong, and I wanted to concentrate on the story for its own sake, rather than on the manuscript's scientific, cultural, anthropological, or 'historical' value. I was drawn to the author himself.

— Orhan Pamuk


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 Voto en blanco

Somewhere, José Saramago is laughing -- emol.com reports that the town of Bello in northern Colombia will be repeating its mayoral elections after no-one won the vote -- no-one won the vote because 56.7% of the voters marked their ballots as blank. (Reinaldo Spitaletta of El espectador writes that he knew something was going on when he saw a lot of people in Bello reading Saramago's Seeing before the elections.) Thanks for the link, Jorge!

posted evening of Sunday, December 18th, 2011
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What's of interest:

➪ Allan Evans of Arbiter Records has a new blog: Arbiter of Cultural Tradition. His first entry this weekend reports on efforts to recapture an elusive Brahms. Promising!
➪ At Via Negativa, Dave Bonta meditates on a place where time stands still, where "there are no deep-water drilling rigs or frackwater impoundments, no tar sands or tarred beaches, no vanishing pikas..."
➪ Paul Campos of Lawyers, Guns & Money notes, on the occasion of Christopher Hitchens' passing (and ironically of the end of the war which he championed), the writeup Hitchens did of a meeting with Borges in his old age. (Thanks for the link, Carrie!)
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