in the noonday sun, i sat for over two hours in the open and unsheltered space outside clemons library with a classmate reading ovid (or trying to lah) because the library wasn't open (yet these are fall *reading* days. hmm.) and now my eyes hurt like the devil and instead of killing them further sitting in front of this computer i should put something on them and curl up in bed, which is probably a good idea. sunglasses have uses!

and someone should do something to stop me, because i am in danger of spending a lot of money on three norwegian albums by morten harket (with whom i am once again wildly in love.) i'm talking hundreds of dollars so it will be folly, and this has clean put opera gloves and first edition thirteen clocks out of my head. i suppose most people wouldn't think this an improvement, with possibly the exception of von, who thought the gloves were an excreable idea, but i have rarely given a hoot what he thinks about these things and my girlfriends subsequently said i'd be mad if i didn't buy them.) but i digress, for the gloves are a thing of yesterday. now my heart is set on the albums instead, one of which was released in 1993, only in norway.

it's called poetenes evangelium, as you can see, and consists of poems by post-war norwegian writers on the life of jesus. the poets and the singer retreated to a semi-deserted village to work on this project, there the poems were written, and were scored by morten harket. there is a also a book by the same title which includes the poems that didn't make it into the album. and i have to get on with the ovid now. i have got to the recreation of mankind after the flood from the stones thrown behind their backs. david kovacs is a v nice and smart professor but i think reviewing 400lines, even over the break, isn't exactly very kind. heyhey, something curious i saw. book i line 294: et ducit remos illic ubi nuper ararat, he directed his oars to the place where recently he ploughed. isn't that interesting that the verb "ararat" occurs in this line? something for us to think about!