i had a lot more written here, but i think it was too privilege
heavy, so this instead:

i had a lovely christmas. everybody, myself included, got some
real cool stuff. also there was a well behaved dog who was
adorable.

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i got the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th
edition, 2012), which i am really excited about. i'm not an
enlgish or fine arts student in any formal capacity, but i want to
bite off and read a good chunk of that book. I think to make those
stick i want to write thoughts or summaries or essays about them,
and maybe post them to a gopherhole (probably on sdf). the point
of posting them publicly would be to make me commit to it, but it
would carve out a little poetry corner in gopherspace, and that
would be cool.

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i also want to write about Don Quixote, because it is an amazing
novel, and i have many thoughts about it, and not enough time to
read everything to see if other people have thought them before
me. so far though, my central thesis of "Don Quixote isn't mad"
hasn't been supported very strongly by many critics (sans Mark Van
Doren, but his analysis is not that deep in that regard):

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    _____##"_____    [\ `|;       o     Q U I X O T E
                       (=\)\  ,, (+)
                       ||'|   [`( \)`      MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
_______________________!!_!_____!!'!_____________________________

if i manage to ever write anything, ill talk about it here, and
probably mirror it on sdf and ~town's gopherholes