2004-01-27 8:00 pm

Alan Moore Dusts Rilke and Beckett

Had to get out of my room today because things were getting all wrong, so I came into town this evening to have some Korean cabbage soup and hang out in an internet cafe with all the other funky people.

There's some kind of staining on my computer screen. Is the short term unpleasantness of washing it off going to be worse than the long term unpleasantness of not being able to forget that it's there?

Yesterday I bought three books (I don't know why, I'm not going to be able to take them to Berlin). Some Rilke poetry, a book of Beckett's prose and the second volume in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. I felt pretty fucking intelligent buying the Rilke and the Beckett, and I'm mentioning it again now for the benefit of the few people who read this diary. That is the sort of stuff I read. But it is telling, perhaps, that the Rilke and the Beckett have gone to the top of the bookshelf to gather dust, while I have read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill four times already, even while eating my Coco Pops, and even, yes, during time that I allotted to learning German.

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