Writing again, thankfully.

And making minestrone and doing laundry and carrying firewood.

Ice storm today, but we haven't lost power yet. That's only a matter of time, however. If there's power to be lost, we will lose it.

Quotation for the day, from the preface to the Leavises' Dickens the Novelist:

"The ineptness of scholars as literary critics is a notorious fact."