September 12 - Nasty, Brutish, and Short


Finish two surprisingly


Hobbsian (and Calvinesque?) studies: The Horizon History of...



... Christianity (1964, Roland Bainton, 1894-1984) and


... The Middle Ages (1968, Morris Bishop, 1893-1973... they both died in a same ones-digit year of their births) -- simultaneously purchased on the cheap from the local library's recent book sale -- and there is nothing for it but to keep composing To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256: II: I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder (after Bertolt Brecht, page 5 of this and 12 of total thus far), on the 184th day of summer, high again down, now 6, to 75 (18-degree plummet in 2 days)...