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March 5, 1998
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Today's dilemma: meeting or Matthiessen? Guess which I chose? I went to the meeting. A lot of people in my circle of acquaintance find it hard to believe that workaholism is a real addiction, but it is, and judging by the wound up frantic feeling I've been having lately, I really needed to go to the meeting. 'Nuff said for now. Work addiction is one of the topics I skirt around in this journal without ever getting into much depth partly because of the anonymity issue and partly because there are so many myths surrounding it. Anyway, I went to the meeting. We had snow flurries today, which surprised me after the warm drizzly weather we've been having. My copy of A Key into the Language of America came today by UPS. I ordered it about 3 days ago from Barnes & Noble after having been told by the Brown Bookstore that it was out of print except for some weird edition that cost $95. However, it was reissued in late 1997 and B&N had it for $10.95 so I could not pass it up. My appetite for Narragansett words was rekindled by reading William Wood's New England's Prospect, which has a small Narragansett glossary in with his descriptions of the flora, fauna, people, and soil of New England. Wood's book predates Roger Williams by something like 9 years. "What cheer, Netop? " is the greeting the Narragansett welcomed Roger Williams with. "Netop" is "friend". Today it sounds more like some kind of internet system administrator. |
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