Dalla Biblioteca Hamilton. Just finished registering online here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for Spring 2008 graduate studies: Fr 409 and Fr 661, advanced French grammar and stylistics, respectively. How fast it's going. Read a whole book on Transcendentalism last night: Hate to say it, but I have nothing to add: That's me, top to bottom, from "moral sense," and the hash we make of Kant's "pure" and "practical" reason, to the Emersonian aversion to all of Hawthorne, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables ("too melancholy!") and Edgar Alan Poe ("jingle-jangle man"). I knew I liked (loved, actually) Emerson and Thoreau--I just didn't know how much. Funny, the only difference is I'm not as persuaded as they were of Walt Whitman's great genius, and I am inclined, like say the Lowells and the Longfellows, to find Great Barbarically Yawping Walt insuperably nasty. Oh well.