Dear Friends,
Happy Saturday. How are you? I am writing to you on the tail end of my second espresso (decaf) and a pleasurable morning of reading. As I shared with you last week, I’m working on an article on Piranesi by Susannah Clarke, and her use of Owen Barfield’s idea of Original Participation as a way of exploring enchantment, disenchantment, and the discomforts of modernity. I am enjoying this project very much indeed, and particularly enjoying this part of the process, by which I mean the part where I reading in various locations for hours on end. One cane call this “research” but I call it “very pleasurable and enjoyable.” Here is a chronology of my “very pleasurable and enjoyable research” over the last week:
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