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Aug. 28th, 2009 11:01 pm- 16:14 The thing about reading classic books about travelling in Asia is how annoying they are for an Asian to read. XD #
- 17:57 Kipling, for all that he's such a product of his time, puts me off less with Kim than Lewis does with Narnia or Tolkien with Middle-Earth. #
- 17:57 but the things he says about African-Americans are shocking and awful! #
- 18:09 Kipling is much less racist in Kim, maybe because he deals with India and Tibet, where he actually lived. He's quite vicious about the US! #
- 21:15 My grandmother moved ALL MY ARTBOOKS into the other room, and so instead of working on the portfolio I get to move them all back. Sigh. #
- 22:45 I need to practice digital work. I want to be at least partly as comfortable with digital collage as I am with my stamps and bits of paper. #