"Agent Jeffrey's trained eyes rolled carefully around the room, taking in the sights and sounds."

[larryhammer]

While spending the weekend camping in the Chiricahua Mountains, the oldest and largest prickly pear in our yard bloomed:



Also, it broke 100°F -- the second earliest it has done so on record. Welcome to late spring.

By way of Not Thinking about all that, some links that recently came to my attention:

This year's Lyttle Lytton Contest winners.

The Genji reading companion, including chapter commentaries and comparisons of the Seidensticker & Tyler translations against each other and the original. The project seems to have stalled after 12 chapters, alas, but until then there's good and useful stuff in there.

Sonnet to a Clam by one John Godfrey Saxe.

---L.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, once I start having to worry about heat exhaustion on the way to work, we've officially entered summer!

(That clam poetry was much better than I was to believe!)

[larryhammer]

That's as good a definition as any. One I have great sympathy for.

The only reason the clam poem got the "very bad poetry" tag was the atrocious hard case/shell pun in the last line -- otherwise, it's quite passable.

---L.

Matt

[(Anonymous)]

the atrocious hard case/shell pun in the last line

Not to nitpick, but you appear to have misspelled "sublime". --Matt

Re: Matt

[larryhammer]

:-P