Amusing Salmagundi

of books I picked up at the library day before yesterday,  Waiting for me on reserve were Pamuk's Snow translated into Spanish as Nieve, and the New Grove Second Viennese School, with the composite photograph on the cover of Berg, Webern, and Schönberg; to these I added Out of the Past, a Gay and Lesbian History from 1890 to the Present, by Neil Miller.  Of these the easiest going, so far, for me, has been Nieve.