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Did not read a single page today, did not do much of anything at all. And now I feel utterly blah. Day off, you're doing it wrong. I'm close to chucking all these silly exams out the window, it's not like I will ever use my degree, anyway. Tea is sure to help.

I did do one thing, I finished The New York Trilogy – more Auster, I'm involuntarily binge reading. Post-modern detective stories, in typical Auster meta-fictive mode. The first and the last are definitely the highlights, the middle one feels too much like the first to be interesting. It's interesting enough, but with all the meta, and the speculation about the arbitrary nature of language, it was timed very badly. This is what I try to fill my skull with, from dawn til I throw the book at the wall. The final book, "The Locked Room", is the best of the three (I read them in one volume, I think that's mainly how it's published, currently). But I think they're better read separately; as one volume it's a bit too much. It's very Auster, very noir and post-modern. I suspect that, if I'd read it at any other time, I would have loved it.

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Did not read a single page today, did not do much of anything at all. And now I feel utterly blah. Day off, you're doing it wrong. I'm close to chucking all these silly exams out the window, it's not like I will ever use my degree, anyway. Tea is sure to help.

I did do one thing, I finished The New York Trilogy – more Auster, I'm involuntarily binge reading. Post-modern detective stories, in typical Auster meta-fictive mode. The first and the last are definitely the highlights, the middle one feels too much like the first to be interesting. It's interesting enough, but with all the meta, and the speculation about the arbitrary nature of language, it was timed very badly. This is what I try to fill my skull with, from dawn til I throw the book at the wall. The final book, "The Locked Room", is the best of the three (I read them in one volume, I think that's mainly how it's published, currently). But I think they're better read separately; as one volume it's a bit too much. It's very Auster, very noir and post-modern. I suspect that, if I'd read it at any other time, I would have loved it.