Woha Senor C!! I will go mad or what!! When I woke up this morning, next to my sleeping partner, my bookpile, I was giving thanks to you, when I turned and came face to face with Milosz's Collected Poems.

Also while we are on the subject of Italians, I began reading, finally, Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. Is it a mindfuck or what! Each of those short, just a page length, vignettes, supposedly dealing with different cities, pack so much thought and philosophy into them, like a handgrenade with sharpnel, that I was still reeling. How does a writer get to that place where this superb synthesis of idea and form occurs!! I am sure this is a book I will begin re-reading as soon as I finish.

Other books that have been keeping me up way past sleep time are Sontag's 'Regarding the Pain of Others' and Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization'. Since I have diversified from scribbling to working a camera, I am also attempting to grope towards a kind of aesthetic to govern my learning, and in this process Sontag with her prodigious learning has become a kind of a 'mage'. I wrote a bad poem after reading her: buoy.antville.org . Also I was thinking of the relation between me and language, and took notes of some of these thoughts. Nothing very original, but neverthless take a look: buoy.antville.org .

I am yet to go any significant distance into Foucault's book, which is also my first encounter with his work, but it was madness to discover that 'Ship of Fools' wasn't merely a metaphor, but there were in the Middle Ages, real ships of floating 'crazies'!!

Well, enough running at the mouth. I will have to mail you Adam Z's book still - I promise to do that first thing Monday. I am bad with these kind of details - money, accounts, things-to-dos etc. I need a wife who will help me with these!

Happy reading!