A day at home so i start by finishing "Gun - with occasional music" excellent turns of phrase and wit throughout. at the end the whodunnit plot does seem completely superfluous and you want a few more wisecracking pages to appear.
then time for a change - Victorian verse by Christopher Ricks an anthology. Started today with a very short poem by Matthew Arnold on Old Age - Destiny - then another called Growing Old - both written when he was less than 50. I read the rest of MA's poems in the anthology. Sense of melancholic distance in them all. I felt an empathy to him, particularly in his search for feeling and desire to link the present and the past. They are not "inspirational" poems, but left me seeking more about him.
So more to come of the poems - see if i can find a link to a web site with them on
the rest of the day stretches ahead. A visit to opticians, then a trip to Goodwood Races,
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