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2002-10-29

Reading the etymology chapter in David Crystal’s The Encyclopedia of the English Language for class tomorrow and suddenly a brick hits me straight in the face. Not an actual brick, but it had the same effect. I pushed the book away from me as if that would make me see thing clearer, I even tried to tilt the book. But it was there. Mervyn Peake was mentioned in the same sentence as Dickens, and it seems as if the esteemed Mr. Crystal actually have read the Titus Groan books.

This shoudln’t be much of a surprise really, but latley I’ve begun to wonder. One of my lecturer, the one resposible for literature, had read Peake but never heard of Titus Groan. For a while there I thought I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone (the black and white series thank-you-very-much), because the Groan sequence is what made him known uptil this day. Of all the books in the world, how can one have missed Titus Groan?!

Did I mention that etymology is fun? Well, it is.

Had a Donnie Darko experience. The tree-tops against a thunderstorm backdrop and a spot that grew darker and darker like a portal just about to be shaped. It didn’t, obviously. But it was beautiful and I didn’t have my camera — as these things work I notice things much better when the camera isn’t there for some reason. But it was just one of the neatest things I’ve seen.