ephemera

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I'm wondering if I should just launch into something.  Rather than doing this piecemeal annotation, working through the texts.  (Which, I should note, I'm doing quite a bit of.)  Along the lines of the contemplated work in Murdoch's Book and the Brotherhood.  Just launch into that one big thing.  But it's a bit like deciding to build a rocket while travelling between cities.  One does need a place, a stable manufacturing base, a decent library and some stability of life.  Else, you'll just make a rather large wobbly thing that bespeaks the circumstances of its creation more than anything else. 

The winter was a bit rough, and I'm basically back from that.  And working in the panopticon, in which someone trying to sell me something is probably noting absolutely every text I call up on screen is a bit unnerving.  I sort of prefer not to have people reading over my shoulder, even if they are just an algorithm.  

Time will tell.  Likely after I finish the half-dozen books in the immediate queue.  When you set out on this sort of a peregrination, you sort of put the larger projects in a mental steamer trunk for safekeeping.  The wobbliness of travel can put a good idea permanently off-center.   Trees grow to the light, even when the sun's going in circles due to the elliptic of the travels.

Time will tell.