"'I'm afraid that would come under the heading of "over-exertion,"' said Madam Pomfrey."
--Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (hey, that entry has a triple-iterated quotation!)
Dreamed of two students (one of them Billy Bob Thornton) coming to London to co-operate in a Ph.D. program creating a Frankenstein-like artificial life; both of them breaking rules together; a British museum that levitated into the air; reflecting that filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was fortunate to be able to devote his whole life to his art.
Darren, the NDP campaign's money man, was so grateful to me for finding the list of local Liberal contributors that he treated me to lunch at Harvey's. (For him it was breakfast!) He says that if we can get our support up to 25 or 30%--it was 15% in the last election--we can get critical mass.
Dinner was lasagna.
Saw Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man at the Revue. It's about Timothy Treadwell, a guy who lived among dangerous grizzly bears in Alaska and became famous before he became careless and got killed by one. He was obsessive in a way that clearly endeared him to Herzog.
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