in exchange for a nooteboom...

... gordon teskey gave me the loeb classical library reader!

how i adore professors who give people books! but i expect all professors give people books though. so perhaps that should be: i adore professors who give me books. but that sounds like i only like them because they gave me a book, when i mean i like them for being the kind of person who would give someone like me a book.

this is why auden kept changing and finally suppressed his line, isn't it?