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Quite a weekend. We drove down to Kitty Hawk on Saturday, and spent the night at a Ramada. Sarah didn't go down quietly or early, but she still managed to rise at 4:30, noisily. We visited the beach in the howling wind, watching the foam, and Sarah and I had a dip in the pool. After that we all had a nice visit with Jay and Karen and Kally and Jelena (sp?). Then the ride home started off well enough, with Sarah soon falling asleep. She woke when Cathy took over driving and was quite the needy one thereafter. So it was quite a weekend. Monday, Sarah was sick and woke up at 4:30 again. Today she wasn't so sick, but she still woke up at 4:30. Tonight might be my turn, so I think I'll turn in early. Cathy handled the last two.
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Reading matter: The Library of America's volume Kaufman & Co is a set of Broadway comedies George S. Kaufman wrote, each in collaboration with another writer. It includes a stage version of "Animal Crackers," as well as "Of Thee I Sing" and a handful of other great shows, all seemingly about show business people. The Library of America also has excellent volumes of the works of Mark Twain, James Thurber (one volume), Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and many others I'm less inclined to find interesting. I bought the volume of Poe's literary criticism, & still haven't made a serious dent in it, and it isn't for lack of trying. It's a bit abstruse for me, but I had to buy it to find that out. I keep telling myself, some day I'll grok this stuff.

Listening material: I've ordered it, and it hasn't arrived yet, but I feel as if I know it already. There's good reason for this. I'm talking about Liszt's settings of Gregorian melodies yclept "Responsories & Antiphons." If the link to Amazon dot com is good, you can follow it to audio samples -- not just a few, but samples of every track, up to a minute's worth. Many of the tracks are shorter than that, so the samples are the entire track. There are 109 tracks, probably about 100 minutes of music, out of 153 or so I seem to recall. Yes, here it is! The description on Hyperion's page gives a total time of 153'21, and has a summary of the track info. What generosity... Amazon is pretty much giving away (albeit at lo-fi streaming) almost 2/3 of the album. It was enough for me to decide to take a chance on it. I got the cheap used one!
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