i've decided that i can't read huckleberry finn for the same reason i never could get through robinson crusoe - they're boy scout books! or for that matter the swiss family robinson. i want books written by women who were shy dreamers as girls and who grew up to be writers and who write about girls who are shy dreamers who grow up to be writers. vicky austin for preference! a ring of deep and endless light / dazzles the darkness in my heart/ etc! funny how i like books with rivers in them - only if they are rivers that run through cities, and not the outdoorsy sort of "o on the banks of the great mississippi" etc type of book.

i wonder what's wrong with me - i'm mostly - feeling dizzy - and a cough is coming on. mostly extremely tired.