@evaaeolus.bsky.social - Eva Aeolus

26 Apr 2026 17:00 +0000

"Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life." Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

20 Apr 2026 00:16 +0000

There's a huge bunny in the yard.

10 Apr 2026 12:29 +0000

A week til I turn in the draft PhD, 8 weeks til final. Should we ever have another lockdown pandemic, I shall find a better solution for my boredom than a PhD.

09 Apr 2026 17:08 +0000

In some hazy state this morning, I accidentally made a pot of caffeinated coffee and not decaf, and did not notice until I had ingested the entire thing.

08 Apr 2026 15:51 +0000

I asked the AI what language I should learn next (given which ones I have studied), and it told me I should learn Basque because it would "change how I think".

07 Apr 2026 02:04 +0000

I am unsure which is more dangerous: watching youtube pottery videos or watching McQueen runway shows. It is probably for the best I cannot stream all the NDT I could want.

06 Apr 2026 13:01 +0000

Porter creates with words 7 paintings by a Bacon on his death bed in Spain. They feel plausibly Bacon: his life, oddities, bad behavior. They feel like rage and frustration and creative force and death. I am not sure what it would be like to read this with no Bacon of one’s own in one's head. Wow.

06 Apr 2026 02:34 +0000

After having only an academia-related TBR list for several years, my binge-buying of the last three weeks has resulted in this glory. I've read the Porter/Bacon, Dazai, and Yi Seoyoung. Part way through Lithium.

06 Apr 2026 01:53 +0000

Fitzcarraldo binge-purchasing in London.

06 Apr 2026 01:43 +0000

One of the outcomes of doing a PhD is a newfound love for the novella.

25 Mar 2026 15:37 +0000

Numbering books is dangerous. I have shelves of the @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social Biblioteca books and the missing #s pain me. I bought 8 @ndbooks.bsky.social yesterday and I ask myself: why can't I have them all? At least the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social aren't #-ed so I don't know what's missing.

25 Mar 2026 15:32 +0000

This was fantastic. My first Dazai, the translation is beautiful. I minored in Japanese too long ago and too far away and I cannot recreate what the original language could be but/and/yet feel that Sam Bett did something special with this translation. I'll want more Dazia and more Bett in my future.

25 Mar 2026 03:28 +0000

I really need to know what "doodly squat" is in the original Japanese. Anyone? [I did three years of Japanese as an undergrad and this never surfaced.]

25 Mar 2026 02:56 +0000

Had a New Directions purchasing glitch today.

21 Mar 2026 19:40 +0000

I made it five months into my year of no buying books. I defend myself by saying I need these five books for an important project. Weak argument. Agreed. I shall now return to not buying books.

21 Mar 2026 19:38 +0000

Unintended effect: about to return a book and re-buy it from a different publisher. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Mar 2026 14:13 +0000

I started reshelving the books by publisher at zero dark thirty. Started with the easy ones: NYRB, NDP, Europa, Adelphi, Loeb, and I must say, this makes the shelves very pleasing. Many more to go. I find it makes me want to shop differently, as well. (Poetry is shelved separately, by poet.)

21 Mar 2026 01:29 +0000

Inexplicable that it will take two months for Google to delete Fitbit data.

13 Mar 2026 22:25 +0000

Libraries are so beautifully disruptive.

13 Mar 2026 16:13 +0000

I am always amazed that people walk through our (open) gate, ten feet on to our property, to throw their bags of dog poop into our closed trash bins.

11 Mar 2026 22:52 +0000

I found the 1882 record of the delivery to the municipality, of a baby found wrapped in cloth and abandoned, my great-grand-mother. They gave her the last name Selva which makes me wonder if she was found in the forest.

11 Mar 2026 22:00 +0000

The first line of the Guardian story on the Trump Epstein Titanic statue -- "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets" should get some fired.

11 Mar 2026 14:46 +0000

I have not been particularly success in one of the languages. Maybe I need another language (or two) to not curse in, up my success as a percentage. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

11 Mar 2026 14:45 +0000

I am a mere few weeks away from a complete draft of this PhD. One day soon this shall all just live in the haze of memory.

02 Mar 2026 02:57 +0000

Last night I dreamt I was under the stripey big top doing divinations and wow my friends do I have news for you.

28 Feb 2026 01:33 +0000

This is so beautiful and makes me miss Mongolia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi3pvfu5kDw

24 Feb 2026 23:23 +0000

I have a very short list of publishing houses I'd like to publish something with in this life time. Now might be a great time to start making that a reality.

24 Feb 2026 16:31 +0000

I am continually amazed by people who take video conference calls in cafés. Especially ones where everyone else is working quietly.

23 Feb 2026 23:37 +0000

This town has too many Teslas.

23 Feb 2026 03:37 +0000

Train to Pakistan, by Khushwant Singh. Written in 1956, taking place in 1947, incredibly good and still feels so present. About partition and everything else.