A filling

"Of course he thought Casabianca's was the noblest life that perished there; there could be no two opinions about that; it never occurred to him that the moral of the poem was that young people cannot begin too soon to exercise discretion in the obedience they pay to their Papa and Mamma.  Oh, no! the only thought in his mind was that he should never, never have been like Casabianca, and that Casabianca would have despised him so much, if he could  have known him, that he would not have condescended to speak to him"--The Way of All Flesh

Wednesday I had lunch with Pam at the Grenadier restaurant in High Park.  The weather was good so we went for a walk afterward.

Friday morning I went to the dentist and got a filling.  Later that day I read in the new Harper's issue an annotation feature by an American whose dental care suffered from lack of funds!

It turned out that longer book excerpts were needed for the magazine, so I typed up some longer ones.  Really, I like having work that takes a lot of time...

In The Way of All Flesh there's a public school headmaster called Skinner.  Is this the origin of Principal Skinner's name on The Simpsons?

I finished translating "Streetcar, Streetcar, Wait for Me" into Korean and started on "Early Morning Rabbits."

I've started reading a Pibgorn story retelling Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (with Pib in the Juliet role).