I am happy!
When Asgaard (that is my computer, mind you) fried back in early December, I decided to abandon Win98 and install WinXP. That was not exactly a voluntary choice, mind you, but I came to like XP after all – after the horrendous new visual schemes and colors are removed, it has some great functionality that I surely missed in Win98. But that is not the reason for my current happiness.
Upon installing WinXP, I backed up many things, but I completely forgot to save my list of bookmarks, among other less important things. That was a great loss. In special, I missed my links to a site with all poems for William Butler Yeats, and another with scans to the very first print of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Today I decided to do a quick search and replace part of what I lost. I did not expect much, as I am without time right now and just wanted to see if I could get very lucky. Well, I got very lucky. I found one site with the original two books in a very easy to read html format, and also another site that carries Lewis Carroll’s other works, like The Hunting of the Snark.
But I cannot read any of it because I must first finish the Dante I started, and I cannot finish it because I want to write a History entry to the upcoming Dark Ages contest, which I would need to do in two days because I will be so busy proofreading a book (that I would never normally read) until January 20th. That means I will once again not read anything by Lewis Carroll, then school will start again and I will forget it. Just like last year.
I hope the text for proofreading is shorter than I imagine.
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