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What an incredible day! I visited the unparalleled James Joyce Collection at The University at Buffalo and beheld Joyce’s spectacles, the 1939 first edition of Finnegans Wake, and Sylvia Beach’s personally-bound copy of Ulysses. I surveyed Joyce’s collected notebooks and related lit and met with a Joycean scholar who operates a used bookshop in town in an effort to secure one of the University’s workbooks with facsimiles of Joyce’s handwritten notes for The Wake. It's quite a rare specimen but I enjoy a challenge! And as a gift, a professor kindly provided me with a copy of Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection!

The manuscripts were riveting, and as icing on the cake I happened upon a stunning Joyce portrait from The Irish Classical Theatre’s 2000 production of Nightmaze - The Wake realized for the stage - which would be a brilliant complement to my framed issue of Time from ‘39 with Joyce’s portrait on the cover. The proprietor of the bookshop refused to part with the print but I’ve contacted the Classical Theatre to see if they have a copy.

Also enjoyed some engaging conversations with library and bookshop patrons. A fine day, indeed!

Just started a classic.
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First time?

Third, but this time Karen chose it and she hasn't read it before, so it's (mostly) new to her.

I hope you read it more passionate than you did in the voice exchange thread.
And also mimic explosions and stuff.

Not really. My voice is what it is, though kind of yeah: when you're reading out loud to someone there's a little more emphasis and life required than when you're just basically reading into a microphone.

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Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan

20 years later every warning we ignored is biting us in the ass and only getting worse

Books he wrote decades ago still blow our current celebrity scientists away.

Dude knew what the **** was up

Pretty much the only pop scientist worth anyone's time.

I love that scene so much. Immediately knew what you're getting at, when I saw the thumbnail.

Besides being incredibly articulate there’s a couple other reasons for that:

1) He worked on the Voyagers and the proof is in the pudding.
2) He stayed in his lane. These guys today are pulling **** out of their ass that’s as much mythology as science.