Friday, January 20
5:00 am
It is -18 °C, with a high forecast of -7 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. High minus 7.
Tonight Cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries late this evening and overnight with risk of freezing rain. Wind becoming south 30 km/h this evening. Temperature rising to plus 2 by morning.
Normals: Max. -2 °C Min. -14 °C.
It is nice to see those positive temperatures in the forecast.
6:00 am Literature
I am still immersed in dangerous waters. Now that I have Garber's book on Shakespeare on my iPad2, it seems to make sense to also put Shakespeare's complete works on the same device. There are a number of such files available at prices of only a few dollars. This could become addictive.
I have also noted that a similar book is available for Charles Dickens.
[9:00 am Addendum]
I am now swimming, although drowning might be a better metaphor.
I have now downloaded the complete works of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Sir Walter Scott. Each collection cost $2.99. All of these books were ebooks available from amazon.com (i.e. for kindle apps) which then run on either a PC or a Mac or a kindle device.
The Dickens collection is personally special as I have often wanted to have a complete collection but could never find a hard cover set that seemed to do that. Now I have an ebook that includes all 60 complete works. I had no idea there were so many!
[5:00 PM Addendum]
I have now finished reading the second chapter of Garber's "The Use and Misuse of Literature" which discusses the use and misuse of the terms use and misuse while reviewing the general themes of Literature Criticism during the last century.
I have almost finished the first chapter of her book "Shakespeare After All" and will soon be beginning "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" - a play I know nothing about.
While browsing the Web I came across the following Woody Allen quote: "I once took a speed reading course and then read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia."