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Enjoying The left hand of darkness, Le Guin, marvelous narrator et al; Lou Ragland; The Relatives; ghost stories; Thomas Mann (not Buddenbrooks); work is bibliographic clean-up, enough said; sunny February, will it ever rain; Betelgeuse and Sirus staring; exactness and promptitude; exhilaration and sumptuousness; "Without you I've not slept, not once in the garden nor cared much whether I slept on holly or flock, lonely to death between one breath and the next only to meet you, hear you, only to touch ..." Sa’di, Persia poem, trans. by Bunting; Piazzolla's bandoneon concierto (Nonesuch), this Sat. morning.