But I do—stop, that is. I “finished” the draft of the screenplay I am working on. I did a print-out to check it over and have to do some field research tomorrow before I polish and send it out. That’s not to say that’s the end of it. More to come,I’m sure. I hope.

I also finished reading a Colin Dexter book I found in our apartment library. The residents are big on mysteries/thrillers/whodunnits, etc. First Dexter I’ve read but I’ve watched the series (Morse) on TV a number of times, lots of re-runs. I read while I pedal on a stationary bicycle in the gym—keeps me from getting bored. . I’m half-way through an early book by Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot. Great research. Tells me more than I really wanted to know about Flaubert. Oh, but hey, I liked the research Dexter did for The Wench Is Dead. I’ll try to find a couple of lines to share. Try, I say; I do not mark up library books, but I did notice a few good ones, so I should be able to find them.

Not only are the quotations different, some of them are unknown to me. I’ll have to look up the writers— later. Here, then, are a few comments that appeal to me.

“What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books—if you bring to it not the obligations of the student, or look on it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with the enthusiasm of the adventurer.” David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.” Thomas Carlyle

Ah, but what would he say about Kobo or Kindle or podcasts or Netflix and all the electronic means of conveying learning and stories and ideas? Are they the new magic means of preservation? For how long>

“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.” La Rochefoucald, Maxims