Finished The Natural History of Selbourne yesterday. A happy read. Now trying to give my full attention to Joseph Campbell's Oriental Mythology. Not so happy, though. The first section on Egyptian mythology featured quite a bit of the pointless human sacrifice that characterised the first volume in The Masks of God sequence. Tiresome seems an inappropriately trivial word to describe the content, but I'm afraid that's how I find it.
Also reread the opening section of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea today as preparation for teaching the novel. Painful, but pointedly so. What a deeply unhappy book this is, and how right that it should be so.
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