Teaching Day

In the City this afternoon to lecture on Fontenelle's "Digression on the Ancients and Moderns," Kant's "Sketch of History With A Cosmopolitan Purpose," and DuBois's "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," with a little Wildean coda. If I had gotten more than three hours of sleep last night I daresay I would be pretty excited, since these are all such rich and wonderful texts in their different ways,but as it is I'll be teaching through a headache and the buzz of exhaustion. Insomnia really is the pits.