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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W. Somerset Maugham Ralph Waldo Emerson - "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Joseph Heller's Closing Time

Re-reading from Chapter 18, Dante.  Dante's Inferno (the game gave me quite a bit of information) The Magic Mountain Schweik Kafka - done Joseph K Faulkner Ulysses- tried; Latin got in the way.  30 Rock - seen some; it's good.  Gustav Aschenbach - Death in Venice - Mann The ubiquitous Indian restaurant Saroyan Camus - lots to go.  Bible, Freud - usual suspects King Lear Chapter 19 Loads of f Chapter 20 The chaplain's plight, brilliantly described, and I opine that Mr Heller was a very verbose writer, with an almost stream-of-consciousness style, and had a very expansive vocabulary.