hunt annie dilliard

leigh hunt and i are becoming good friends. well he might not agree...but it would be difficult to solicit his opinion. but i've been reading so much about him lately and so much that he's read. he is one of those poor guys that if he had died when he was young he might have been famous. he was a mentor to keats, a best friend to shelley and occasionally friends but generally hust borrowing money off of byron. he out lived all of them. in fact he outlived most of the romantics. including hazlitt and lamb. wordsworth and coleridge obviously but hunt was one of the second generation and W & C were the first.

it's got to be wierd watching all your friends get picked off like that.

but anyway. alongside hunt, when i can't read him anymore (and this does happen) i've been rereading for the time being by annie dilliard. she makes me introspective at the same time she makes me want to go be useful. she's amazing. and most of the stuff she writes is true. which is unusual.