Current page: 86
Pages read since last post: 86
Days reading Proust: 52 (23, 7, 22*)
Pages of Gibbon read instead: c.800
Demoralising, but expected, job rejections received: 1
Other books read: 1 (R. Matheson, I am legend)
Like the revolutionaries of 1688, I have created a rod to beat my own back. Their's led to the revolution in America (bad); mine means that having cheerfully insisted on a 21 day blog requirement, I have to confess that my progress through volume three has been astonishingly poor (worse). In fact, there is a very real danger that I will pass through the month barrier with only a tiny fraction of the text complete. This is not really a reflection on book itself; more my lack of time. I think I will enjoy this one and have put it aside to complete this volume of Gibbon.
On the plus side I am legend is as good as I remember it, though I now approach the film with trepidation, and I have found a new favourite Gibbon quotation:
'While the blood of Christ still smoked on Mount Calvary, the Docetes [sic] invented the impious and extravagant hypothesis, that, instead of issuing from the womb of the Virgin, he had descended on the banks of the Jordan in the form of perfect manhood' (Decline and Fall, Vol. 2, p.305 [Everyman edition])
The history is wrong. Docetists don't believe this (apparently he means Marcionites) but it was a joy to read this morning.
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Bloody hell, no wonder you're finding it difficult to keep going if you're filling your head with Gibbon!
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