May 29, 5:52 pm
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maribouHad dinner at Cy's Drive In, home of the famous Alaska Burger. Mmmm, chocolate malted. Cute waitress, 1950's by nature as well as by decor. Surprised me by giving the speech about my 'admirable' haircut where I least expected to hear it. I do love my fuzzy head.
I really like the book in which I've been immersed: _Reading Lolita in Tehran_, by Azir Nafisi. The author is romantic about literature, pragmatic about history/politics, and passionately idealistic about, well, everything. The story of an underground book club / English Lit class she held in her house for 2 years is the warp to the twin wefts ['pologies to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiadyn, who is probably wincing at this metaphor] of her own political disillusionment / coming of age, and some of the best lit crit I've read since Harold Bloom (and I'm a big geek for lit crit).
We're finally really and truly on the road. We may make Grand Junction tonight, or we may go the random roadside motel route - it's been good to us in the past.
I really like the book in which I've been immersed: _Reading Lolita in Tehran_, by Azir Nafisi. The author is romantic about literature, pragmatic about history/politics, and passionately idealistic about, well, everything. The story of an underground book club / English Lit class she held in her house for 2 years is the warp to the twin wefts ['pologies to
xiadyn, who is probably wincing at this metaphor] of her own political disillusionment / coming of age, and some of the best lit crit I've read since Harold Bloom (and I'm a big geek for lit crit). We're finally really and truly on the road. We may make Grand Junction tonight, or we may go the random roadside motel route - it's been good to us in the past.
