the over-cheer and the under-scoring

For I dared celebrate the passing of a remarkably unaccomplished semester, with, inter alia, the acquisition of:
- Sarah Blasko's The Overture & the Underscore (get it?)
- Leo Tolstoy's The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
- Oscar Wilde's Selected Essays and Poems (including De Profundis!)

Met an Interesting Person (as distinct from a Person of Interest) the other day - an unusual occurrence owing far more to my limited mobility than to the limited number of IPs at large. M, visitor of the Albanyan's from Pakistan, mid-20s, bundle of contradictions. One minute she was discussing eloquently the beauty of Russell (Bertrand, not Crowe), Nietzsche's last days, and the dictatorship that is modern Pakistan; the next she was speaking with no less enthusiasm about her impending arranged marriage, articulating her views on premarital relations (an unqualified against), and reproaching the Albanyan for seeing an 'economically unsound' guy.

That such a combination gave me pause, however transient, only goes to show the mass of Presumption which imprisons me. 'Cos really, nothing necessarily follows.