felis_ultharus

Well, I finally got to my course on early Canadian book culture yesterday, and wow -- it's a strange but fascinating class.

First of all, when I had the I-am-not-a-postmodernist talk with my professor (it's like coming out!), he informed me neither is he -- he finds postmodernism clashes with his Tory beliefs. No, not Stephen-Harper Conservatives -- real, old, the British-monarchy-will-never-die Tory. They really still exist!

Secondly, the class has four people, myself included. One of them left halfway through class. Another is considering quitting.

Thirdly, he's really big on original sources, rather than reprints. He loves old books. and isnce this is 18th- and 19th-century print culture and printing industry, he wants us to use the originals, many of which he has.

We spent much of the class fondling yellowed tomes. I was reading a newspaper from 1763 -- the original, from 1763! He wheeled a small bookshelf that keeps in his office of this stuff. On it were some of the only existing of books more than a century out of print! He's desperately rescuing these things that libraries are destroying, or which are rotting away in used bookstores.

He's very protective of his collection, so much of our research will be done in class.

Also, the minimum number of pages for the final essay is 2. That's right -- not 25, not 18. Two. There are two projects, but they total abvout 6 pages together. Most of the class is research.

Revised 25 pages of my novel. Must do more before I sleepzzzzz....