Well, I'm off to Franconia tomorrow morning, home next Friday evening, possibly incommunicado in the meantime, but possibly not. Every year I'm told "the Frost Place has Internet now," and every year the ghost of RF severs the wires with his axe. Who knows what he's up to this year?

I've been reading contemporary fiction lately--Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies--and I have some thoughts I'd like to share when I'm back on Harmony time. In the meantime, if any of you have read either of these books, I'd be interested in hearing your opinions.,

And for those of you I'll be seeing on Sunday: I'm so happy we'll be spending time together. It will be a beautiful week.