Oh, I do that same thing with everything that sounds even a little bit like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. That book already won that category!

Well, don’t go see it if you hear it’s bad. I am not convinced enough by the play itself that I would ardently recommend it, but for myself I would be curious to see it.

Well, yay! I’m glad I helped! If you do see it, make sure to post about it because I am hella curious about it.

Oh Proof. I’d like to see the play of Proof — I feel like I saw the film, but now I don’t remember anything about it. But your moral is a true moral. That should be the moral of everything.

Oh, I thought I’d put it in a tag! But I did not. It’s at the end of The Invention of Love, where Housman is reflecting on his life putting all his eggs in the classical scholarship basket. And he says, “What emotional storms and oh, what a tiny teacup.” And that is my favorite line in all of literature. If I were the sort of girl to get a tattoo, that’s the tattoo I would get.

That is a FANTASTIC gig of which I am exceedingly envious. You’ll have to come back and tell me how it is, once you’ve seen it! Inquiring minds want to know.

Gosh, I wouldn’t have thought of disliking him for running away to the US. He wouldn’t have been able to fight in the war if he’d wanted to, would he? Or am I mistaken about his age at the time?

If a girl were interested in seeing what there is to worship about Britten, what might she read to find out more?

This is a huge thing I miss from my library at home, being able to check out TV shows on DVD. Here, you have to check them out one disc at a time, and you only get the one disc after putting a hold and waiting months and months. Watching new TV shows on DVD is harrrrrrd in NYC. I should get Netflix.

I medium love Auden. He said mean things about Robert Browning once so he’s not my friend anymore.

I sometimes wish I could read all my new books with clear eyes, like without having any history of having read anything ever before. But that would be nonsense. I wouldn’t be able to catch any allusions then. So I guess it’s better to have things available to make comparisons against.