1 Looks like you forgot to read the section on Herman Melville and Moby Dick in Richard Armour's The Classics Reclassified, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc, 1960, pp. 85-103.  You may borrow my copy.

2 Have you been doing any writing (along with the reading)?

3 Oh yes. A draft of my project is being reviewed by my adviser and some peers right now. At the moment, I'm finishing a paper to present at a grad-student conference a week from Saturday.

4 Re: Richard Armour, I may have to borrow your copy. Our library system has a dozen of his titles, but not that one. (Although perhaps that section is reprinted in his American Lit Relit, A Short History of American Literature for Long-Suffering Students, for Teachers Who Manage to Keep One Chapter Ahead of the Class, and for All Those Who, No Longer Being in School, Can Happily Sink Back Into Illiteracy.)

The filing of his books amuses me. We have two copies of Going Around Academic Circles, one is under "Education" and the other under "Poetry" which I suppose is sensible. We also have two copies of It All Started With Hippocrates, again one classified as poetry, and the other is in "History of Medicine". I am wondering if Mr. Armour's work inspired the librarians to a small jest as well.