THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN

"Feeling less hot, Dixon heard the band break into a tune he knew and liked; he had the notion that the tune was going to help out this scene and fix it permanently in his memory; he felt romantically excited.  But he'd got no business to feel that, had he?  What was he doing here, after all?  Where was it all going to lead?  Whatever it was leading towards, it was certainly leading away from the course his life had been pursuing for the last eight months, and this thought justified his excitement and filled him with reassurance and hope.  All positive change was good; standing still, growing to the spot, was always bad.  He remembered somebody once showing him a poem which ended something like 'Accepting dearth, the shadow of death.' That was right; not 'experiencing dearth,' which happened to everybody.  The one indispensable answer to an environment bristling with people and things one thought were bad was to go on finding out new ways in which one could think they were bad.  The reason why Prometheus couldn't get away from his vulture that he was keen on it, and not the other way round"--Lucky Jim

"A Blackfoot friend once told me that 'enfranchised' was French for 'screwed.' It's only funny if you're Indian.  Even then, it's not that funny"--The Inconvenient Indian

I finished Lucky Jim a few days ago and started reading Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian for next month's History Meetup.  It's pretty perceptive.

On Youtube I found a season of the BBC Great Railway Journeys devoted to Canada.  The first episodes went between Halifax and Quebec City and there were some places I knew from my youth in the Maritimes.

For a change, my online music theory group met today, on Tuesday afternoon instead of Friday.  And my online karaoke group met on Sunday afternoon!