From The End of Sunday and Early This Morning

I called it before 9 pm and was up before the alarm at 3:30 AM.

Joe Biden is not running for President. Strange to say, but the world has not stopped spinning. he has put the country ahead of his ego and his ambition. If Washington is great because he gave up power willingly, then Biden's place in history is assured.

Joe Biden Is Our Greatest Living President is by Jonathan V. Last:

Presidents tend to be larger than life: Reagan, Clinton, Obama, Trump. Biden was never more than life-sized. Maybe it was the almost accidental nature of his presidency. Maybe it was the large and painful personal losses fate had imposed on him. Maybe it was because he was already an old man when he ascended to the nation’s highest office.

But Biden was never bigger than his office.

I suspect that is precisely why he became a great president.

Go Kamala! 

I read the following last night:

 I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel by RICHARD KELLY KEMICK

Every act of writing is an act of faith: that your words will hold together and take root, that they will endure the spans of doubt and insult, and that, given enough time, all of those words will blossom into something splendid and godly and you will be alive to see it. But when I sit to write my novel, all I see is a pursuit into oblivion, a bridge into space.

From Antigone, THE TRIUMPHS OF JULIUS CAESAR: MANTEGNA AND THE CLASSICAL SPIRIT by Jaspreet Singh Boparai and WHEN A BLIND MAN CRIES: OEDIPUS’ REVENGE IN STATIUS’ THEBAID by Damian Domke. Great pictures in the former, something different from the usual suspects in the latter.

The Sun's July edition is out.

Do check out A Knife at the Throat by DOUG CRANDELL, an Indiana writer published by The Sun.

Los Angeles Review of Book's “Chinatown” at 50, or Seeing Oil Through Cinema. One of my favorite pictures.

Joseph Conrad and André Gide: a literary friendship - I have read more Conrad than Gide, but this gives a new insight into each other.

I finally succumbed to a podcast, The Mythmaker: Decoding John Ford | The Plot Thickens from TCM 2 3, 4 5, and 6.

I also made brownies this morning.

Exposition Review has a new number out.

I feel pretty good. That I did not get the apartment in the order I wanted to have it by now, does not seem to bother me. I am ready to start the day. I will do what needs done later. I feel that I have things in enough of an order. What doubts I have about  "Road Tripping"'s ending are not dragging me down. Let us hope the feeling persists and I am back on track. Say hey.

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