day by day: a blog
October 04, 2008
2008, when money burned, laws were abolished, and soldiers died
[image: Daoguang Emperor (1782–1850)] It is early October in the Year of the Rat. Dispirited, I found myself looking forward to New Year's Eve and suddenly I imagined myself that night, lying alone on the carpet, writing with satisfaction in a notebook: "Moby-Dick, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary -- a good year."
Posted by njenkins at October 4, 2008 11:50 PM
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