Wednesday, 6 April 2005

reading for amsterdam

I am considering whether to reread The Fall before I go to Amsterdam. I expect not, because it's not particularly about Amsterdam, only that the layout of canals is the closest geography to Dante's nine-circled hell. I have to check where the Swallows landed when they didn't mean to go to sea. Not Amsterdam, I am sure.

I remember a surprising lot about the Camus considering I read it 17 years ago. That's what happens when I love a book and read it closely and write what my curmudgeonly professor called "an exemplary essay" about it.

RDC recently got Ian McEwan's new Saturday from Audible.com. While I'm at it maybe I should reread Amsterdam. Except that I have struck euthanasia from my possible to-do list on the grounds that, while I can do it there and no where else, doing it is likely to dampen my enjoyment of the rest of the trip.

Otherwise I'm reading tour books.

bike

Two 3.6-mile city rides.