Thursday, January 17, 2019
The Best Part of Waking Up
John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton (October 5, 1876, from Venice):
Charles Spencelayh, Morning Chapter
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I wake as a matter of course, about half-past five, and get up and go out on my balcony in my nightgown to see if there's going to be a nice dawn.
That's the view I have from it—with the pretty traceried balcony of the Contarini Fasan next door. Generally there is a good dawn (nothing but sunshine and moonlight for the last month). At six I get up, and dress, with, occasionally, balcony interludes but always get to my writing table at seven, where, by scolding and paying, I secure my punctual cup of coffee, and do a bit of the Laws of Plato to build the day on. I find Jowett's translation is good for nothing and shall do one myself, as I've intended these fifteen years.
Related post: Necessary to My Existence.
