Ambiguities

I still haven’t been able to make a commitment to Seven Types of Ambiguity even after all these weeks of having it out of the library (twice) and after I made a video about it. The second time I had it out of the library I only read three pages. I took it back on Saturday. I don’t know whether to get it out again and determinedly finish it or what. I’m still reading Ivanhoe although I did have to renew the book again…but I know I’ll finish it. I don’t understand why I feel particularly differently about the two books. Maybe I just can’t read two novels at the same time. Maybe once I finish Ivanhoe, the way will be clear to read Seven Types. Hard to say as I did read a whole children’s novel yesterday (called The Rational Brutes) without difficulty but that was work related…

Last time I was at the library, I picked up the new translation of DQ. Dare I even consider reading it? Actually I have flipped through it and read the bio. of Edith Grossman, the translator…I was looking for illustrations but no such luck. There’s a pretty scary-looking cover photo of a helmet…more apropos of one of Shakespeare’s tragedies or something…