AM
Least: I stepped onto the JR Rapid to Hineno to find that precisely every second seat was taken up by someone's bag. There were people standing with only half the seats filled. Whats wrong with people? Half of the people are too rude to want to sit next to another human being and the other half are too polite to take a seat!
Most: While hurtling down to Wakayama I thumbed the pages of Paul Auster's Oracle Night. I was gripped by the prospects the story offered. How would Bowen get out of his booky tomb? Who robbed Sid n Grace? What the hell was Mr. Chang up to? Some lustre in a lacklustre morning.
PM
Least: Sometime between 5.30 and 6.15 I finished Oracle Night after a 4 or 5 day stint. I was disappointed to find that very few of the questions I had at 10.00am were satifactorily resolved. A real let down - the review in the link is spot on - a bad bood by a good author.
Most: Between 12.15 and 12:55 I was with a student who wanted to know about the etymology of the words emapathy and sympathy. Why couldn't impathy be a word? As it turns out the work emapthy was created not long after the turn of last century after a translation of the German 'Einfuhlung'. The word Empathize was coined around 1924 to assist with a theory of art appreciation.
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