Journal of a Sabbatical

October 3, 1999


musings




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Today's Reading: Danube by Claudio Magris, A History of Game Birds, Wild-Fowl, and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States by Edward Forbush

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Why are kids so fascinated by castles? For that matter why are adult tourists fascinated by castles? They must have been miserable places to live in, and a neighborhood that required living behind battlements couldn't have been very pleasant.