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The Dragaera list continues to explode with religious discussion. Although it's now the religion of where Reply-To should point from a list, in addition to agnostic/atheist shouting.

The mall is, as expected, a scary place on Black Friday. Not enough people supported Buy Nothing Day.

Paper on Eliot approaches 2/3 done, and I've still got >40 hours to finish it.

Solaris: I read the book last week or the week before. It was pretty good, but about a third of it was taken up with scientific backstory (reading journals, etc). I thought to myself, "They shouldn't even be trying to make a movie out of this." After seeing the movie, I can say with conviction that I was so right.

Waste Land

I'm actually quite happy with my analysis of The Waste Land. "Death by Water" makes sense to me now (it's simultaneously the death of Christ, the spiritual rebirth of the walking dead of part I, and the body of the fertility god that gets thrown out to sea and floats back fourteen days later), and "What the Thunder Said" offers a great deal of hope. Even if we are too stupid to accept it.

In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.