Favourite footnotes: 8

(A good dictionary and usage dictionary are strongly recommended. You're insane if you don't own these already.)

- David Foster Wallace, teaching materials (English 183D, Pomona College, 2008), in The David Foster Wallace Reader

Books I've actually finished lately: 34

In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970.

- jacket copy for A Place in the Country* (emphases mine)

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* This book costs £20, and has fewer than 200 pages.

Five Dials 16

An 18-page Christmas card from Hamish Hamilton, now with added haiku scansion errors.