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Thursday, February 08, 2007

I Wish I Could Do That

Current Mood:
CC is listening to: Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Alla Marcia E Molto Marcato) -- New Philharmonia Orchestra (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 & No. 2 / Norwegian Dance No. 2 / Homage March)

Before I met Steve, I thought I was a well-read person. Then I met Steve and now I'm embarrassed that I thought so highly of myself :-).

On his desk right now, next to this keyboard I'm typing on, is Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Not just any Moby Dick, mind you, it's the 150th Anniversary Edition.

I'm looking at it and it looks so... academic. I mean geez, the thing's 726 pages. And he reads stuff like this for *leisure.*

{opens the book to a random page}

"Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb," said Ahab, "that thou wouldst wad me that fashion? But go thy ways; I had forgot. Below to thy nightly grave; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last.--Down, dog, and kennel!"

Huh?

Of course you realize I'm only saying this because I'm totally jealous :-).

I once told him that one of my favorite books was Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. I don't often read books more than once, but I read Count of Monte Cristo lots of times when I was younger. At one point I also enjoyed the movie Man in the Iron Mask, which was also written by Dumas.

And being the supportive husband that he is and wanting to share in my interests, Steve goes out and gets not only Count of Monte Cristo, but Dumas' entire Musketeers series: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask. Each book is at least 600 pages, with a font size that's got to be less than 10.

He's read them all. Some more than once.

"Yeah, but you read Count of Monte Cristo," you say. "That's an achievement too."

Not when you find out what kind of book it was.

Yup, one of those children's books. It's 237 pages, but it's got pictures on every other page, which means the actual text only takes up 118 pages. The font size is about 18.

Like I said, it's embarrassing :-).

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