"dark scents whisper; and dim waves creep to me,/Gleam like a woman’s hair, stretch out, and rise"

[larryhammer]

I link to this not so much to point at Rupert Brooke writing a sonnet about Hawai'i, though this is amusing enough,* but for the endearing spelling of "eukaleli." This would be, I take it, from an era before a romanization was settled on. *plink plink*

* For the record, he did spend a wanderjahr in the South Pacific and also wrote about Tahiti. But still. Rupert Brooke, of all people.

The UMass Amherst library has a live-streaming peregrine falcon nest cam. There are chicks. (via)

The University of California Press has a large number of its books available for reading online by the general public.

(edited for clarity)

---L.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I went to the Univ. Cal Press site, loaded the 'bookbag' . . . and there is nowhere to download the books, sigh.

[larryhammer]

Sorry -- I could have been clearer: it looks like they are only available for reading online.

---L.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Couldn't even figure out how to do that! The only link seemed to take me to a place where you can buy print copies.

[larryhammer]

When you click the title of a book (or at least, when I do), you should get a page with the title page on the right and a linked table of contents on the left -- with the full text available on a single page by clinking "Print View."

---L.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Okay, saw that--thanks! Will figure out a way to get my list over to the iPad, then. Again, thanks!