Literatus Erectus

New rule: to only read books that I have to read while sitting up.

Looking up at this, this doesn't look quite right. There's a point here so I'll try again:

To only read from now on books that require good posture: The Recognitions for instance, Werner Jaeger's, Paideia, Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures which Renate Stendahl edits so adroitly, wherein Stein's writing is interspersed among 360 photographs but wherein the text is being essentially Stein, who's writing Stein's writing, requires the reader to sit up straight up.

From now on any book I read will be evaluated before I begin reading, thusly: must it be read uprightly or might it be read prone?

I'm pleased to say that 90% of the books I've imported to the cabin in Wyoming were or should have been read while sitting uprightly, and in the good chair with the ottoman beside the fireplace. And that I've read almost all of them, though only one of the four volume's of Chekhov's short stories and Within a Budding Grove is bookmarked at page 52 and has been since 2005.

Prone literature is good too, but prone.

I'm currently reading Denise Mina, Scottish writer of mysteries, in bed before I go to sleep. I keep a book of poems by Michael Hannon, Who on Earth, and Thomas Fuller's, Monsiuer Ambivalence on the bedside table for good luck and because each can be read either way.