For Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, we will be concentrating on the following selections:

1 - In Spring It Is the Dawn
2 - Especially Delightful Is the First Day
3 - On the Third Day of the Third Month
4 - How Delightful Everything Is
5 - Different Ways of Speaking
6 - That Parents Should Bring Up Some Beloved Son
8 - The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
11 -  The Sliding Screen in the Back of the Hall
12 - When I Make Myself Imagine
13 - Depressing Things
22 - When I Visited Bodai Temple
45 - To Meet One's Lover
46 - A Lover's Visit
47 - Rare Things
51 - The Captain First Secretary, Tadanobu
56 - Once When Her Majesty Was Residing
79 - Shameful Things
80 - Things That Have Lost Their Power
81 - Awkward Things
148 - Pleasing Things
185 - It Is Getting So Dark

Come to the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 16th. Ray Hammond & I will be there representing the New York Quarterly and Athanata Arts, Ltd. at table number 94.

Selections for our reading of Herodotus, The Histories, trans. by Robin Waterfield (Oxford World's Classics). References are to Book, then Paragraph numbers:

Book 1:
1.1-140

Book 6:
6.48-84
6.102-117

Book 7:
7.1-104
7.139-144
7.175 - end

Book 8:
8.49-99
8.108-110
8.136-end