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Entertainment: bits and pieces of stuff, can't settle with anything much.
Started with "The Human Stain" with Anthony Hopkins and Nichol Kidman which got turned off after 40 minutes or so.
Then on we went to David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema which was inneresting in parts and tedious in others, though we did make it to the end.
Then on to Civilisation E11 "The Worship of nature" which, rather than being replete with howling Germans or Italians, is replete with fecking poetry from the likes of Wordsworth, read by C. Day Lewis.
Since I detest most poetry this is currently paused to give me a little rest from it.
Only another half an hour to go.
I suspect that I've not enjoyed "Civilisation" in quite the way I enjoyed "America" or "The Ascent of Man", probably because I'm a philistine.
Tonight’s reading was The Valley of Fear, being one of the two-stories-for-the-price-of-one Holmes novels. Having investigated the background to the American-set part of the story, which it turns out sprang from Doyle’s acquaintance with Pinkerton of detective agency fame, I found the literary device less irritating this time
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