July 12. Had fun running four and a half miles in the remaining summer heat at ten in the evening. But my fitness is in a slump, and it’s getting harder and harder for me to work my way back up from such a slump.

It doesn’t make me angry when people read paper books. That would suggest I was insecure about my own decision to give all my books away. I’m annoyed by the cultural loss of sinking texts into paper graves instead of keeping them accessible. But I have to wonder how much of a culture person I actually am. I have become a bad reader.