Aug. 17th, 2007

jadesfire: Bright yellow flower (book)
Another productive day! All of you who are sending me chocolate, red bull and dissertating vibes are doing sterling work - please keep it up because exhaustion's starting to set in. The good news is that I'm still interested in what I'm reading, which I think counts as a miracle, and I'm now into the 18th and 19th centuries on my 1500 year trawl through the history of libraries. I've got to say, it's fascinating stuff and I don't want to stop! *ponders DPhil again* Maybe in a couple of years...

I'm just about done at Duke Humfrey's, which is quite sad, so I'm thinking of having all my remaining stack requests sent there, just because I can :) I'd also forgotten that management-speak has got nothing on writers of 'cultural studies', although art historians still win the pretentiousness race. I may have read a good article on 'bibliomania' in Romantic England, but I couldn't really tell because the author appeared to have eaten a thesaurus for breakfast, and one that discarded all words under four syllables. *sigh* But I'm gathering lots of fun quotes, and am currently trying to work out if my references to Borges, Eco and Stoppard are useful or self-indulgent. I guess it'll depend on the word count.

Oh, and before I forget, I managed to have a skim of my flist tonight (go me!) and this story by [livejournal.com profile] laurab1 demonstrates exactly what [livejournal.com profile] bringthehappy is for. It made me laugh, awwww and grin all at the same time. And all in 420 words. Brilliant.

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