I must tell my students here to do Ophelia. We'll hold it in Makiling with the full sanction of the fairies. And no peeping toms save for me, harhar!

Anyway, Le Citta Invisibili may have had nothing to do with Benedict Arnold but I've been told that it inspired Roland Barthes's study of Tokyo in The Empire of Signs. Calvino, like his countryman Eco, has the semiotic streak.


Anyway, book number four is something got for ten pesos at Diplomat bookstore here at LB. We have constant booksales here. Offhand, I'd say there are six discount places outside of the campus and within walking distance. An interesting find is this very thick volume of dirty limericks for a hundred bucks.

Book number four is The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee. The play wove in and out of prison, encompassing most of Thoreau's career ending in the abandon of prison and, more importantly, Walden pond.

I especially like the tense scenes between Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson was Thoreau's god and there was this exchange first:

Emerson: Henry, what are you doing in prison?
Thoreau: What are you doing out of it.

And later we go deep into the dynamics of subversion via the two roads of Emersonian strategic compromise and Thoreauvian individual integrity. Of course, the student is valorized over the master. Emerson considered Thoreau his 'walking ethic', what he lectures and writes about but never truly can be.