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Monday, November 14, 2005

brain... full... must ... have... break... else explosion

Today I finished Ellison's Invisible Man. I stand enlightened. Wow. Great book. Then I read Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. I'd already read parts of it before, but not all. As I read, every now and then I would get this flash that, holy shit, this is not made up. All these horrific things really happened. Chilling and just, saddening. I wonder what Ellison and Douglass might have talked about if they'd ever met? Now, I think I'm just depressed. Then I started Thoreau's Walden and even though I'm only about 1/4 of the way through, I keep thinking, where the hell does he get off getting all holier than thou like that? He's a free white man without a family to support. He can go live like that. If it was a young woman? Now what do you think would happen? Anyway, at the moment, he's only succeeded in irritating me.

Then I had to go pick up my son and do the soccer thing and I got heaps of writingon the synopsis done in the back of the car during practice. I'm pretty happy about that. It went really, really well. And so now I'm going to work on that a bit.

My agent hasn't read my proposal for The Rake yet. Impatient frown. But she has it.

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