When we have read a book before, and particularly when we have read it many times before, we know how it ends and need not hurry forward to learn the ending. We can pause on many unremembered details, the more such pauses the better. I am nearly finished for this evening.
"The compliment was as refreshing as the wind off the sea." (p. 377)
I had not remembered this sentence which presents yet another narrative use of the wind, this time in a comparison.
Diana Crowfeather and Kukulkan Zachary converse. We know how this will end but meanwhile we appreciate the wind off the sea and many other such details.
Saturday approaches its end.
Tomorrow evening: canal-side drink with friends returned from holiday.
Monday evening: Zen group in the historic Friends' Meeting House.
Wednesday: visit to Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop.
June 9; the King visits Lancaster Castle.
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