Egypt

I love it that there’s that definite moment when you know the plane has entered Egypt. I’m always coming from either the north or the east, and in both cases there is sea, and then suddenly is land, and you know you’re back in Egypt.

good news: it’s peak watermelon season here, and the melons are excellent

tonight: see a friend

tomorrow: office

now reading: Virginia Woolf

But I also want to go back and finish Hillary Spurling’s Matisse biography. It was a Christmas gift to me in 2005, I immediately read a good chunk of it, but then was sidetracked and will now have to start from scratch. A couple of people were discussing it in Venice, and that reminded me I need to get back into it.

now writing: the extra Circus Philosophicus myth, which will immediately be translated into German and may not appear in English for a long time.