"Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great respect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us--that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in a ferment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled"--Little Women
Last Thursday I braved the rain and the virus and went out to Remenyi's music store. I bought Book 5 (and 6 and 7) of the Celebrate Theory series so Carolyn wouldn't have to do it for me. I had to get out of the house for a little while, to be honest.
Saturday afternoon I started a Classic Book Club Meetup event for reading Jane Austen's Persuasion. We're going to read four chapters every Saturday for six weeks.
Monday night Farshad resumed his Short Story Meetup online. Remember last March when I read Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" in a single day for his Meetup that night but it was cancelled because of the virus? (Of course you don't, unless you're a rare regular reader!) Yesterday I again read it in a single day beforehand, though that's a bit less of a challenge the second time. I couldn't help being reminded of my father's death last month.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Buy & Sell place north of St. Clair Avenue run by an Iranian-Canadian Father was friendly with, told him of Father's death and mentioned that he talked about the Iranian a lot. I was there because my neighbour Emma tipped me off that he had a huge Dictionary of Canadian Music for sale. I paid $20 for it--I might have haggled the price down but it felt like a shame to pay less for such a handsome volume!
Moira and I usually watch an episode of One Piece around 6:00, but I cancelled that night to make sure I'd have time to finish the novella. We're getting really close to the end of the exciting Alabasta story, which will also be the end of the episodes on Netflix. To see more, we'll have to go elsewhere online.
I'm also watching subtitled episodes further on, and just got into the Water 7 story, which is already getting good. (In one scene an enemy gang attacks the crew with The Everything Cannon!)
Today I washed the windows.
