Children's Day/Leif Erikson Day/Clergy Appreciation Day
2005-10-09 @ 9:34 p.m.

How do my sisters study and sleep with such loud music blaring from the radio? I can only do that with Mathematics and I can't sleep listening to anything with more than light percussion. I function poorly around any other sort of music. Too easily distracted by the rhythm or melodies, so I either end up singing along or tapping out the beat on whatever happens to be handy. I'm writing about this because Audrey's in my room studying for her Geography paper tomorrow, as Natalie's already sleeping. Just printed a bunch of stuff for European History, so I'm feeling a false sense of accomplishment. Filing can be a very affirming experience. Have finished The Alchemist, which is nice, but would probably earn the dismissive adjective "pretty" from me if I weren't already determined to love Coelho's work, just like how I buy anything written by Thomas Hardy, Russell Hoban, Milan Kundera, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Am now reading The Devil And Miss Prym, which is more interesting in terms of plot than The Alchemist. I'm sure something similar has been before, but the plot is really perfect for a television drama series. Guy shows up in isolated village to tempt inhabitants with the promise of wealth, and the question is whether human nature is going to be shown as fundamentally good or evil. Coelho's character actually refers to his actions as being parallel to those of someone else, but the actual reference escapes me at the moment. I can only think of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness, which is tangentially appropriate, I guess.

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