Saturday, 12/7/19

Also reading Jonathon Swift: His Life and His World. …Deane Swift the younger, one of the few relatives he liked, heard that “he was prodigiously fond of rambling,” and that his stamina, which remained impressive right into old age, had been extraordinary then. “He ran like a buck from one place to another. Gates, stiles, and quicksets (hedges) he no more valued than if they had been so many straws.”

Alex Hutchinson: 2019 Holiday Book List