We live these days on our inner fat, turning over the souvenirs and trophies we've kept, poking in our library and record collection.

A cocooned Irish friend sent Lise a clip in which the French song La Mer was accompanied by seaside scenes painted by Sorolla.  Our beleaguered friends in Madrid live around the corner from Joaquín Sorolla's former residence, now a fine museum.  I dug out our copy of Begoña Torres González beautiful Vida y Obra Sorolla, 978-84-662-1879-5 and came across this

image of his 1906 Puente de Alcántara. Reminded me of days when we could roam.  In the Summer of 2006, I got the bus to wait, and ran across this very bridge to the city (Toledo) side, to get down the bank and taste the Tagus.

Toledo! What a place!  City of steel, Damascene, El Cid, El Greco, and the main channel through which Moorish civilization enriched Europe.

Tasting great rivers is a habit learned from Belloc.  I liked Belloc a lot in my teens.  Revisiting him, I find his antisemitism repellant.

Tagus is a universe, from the pristine stream of the Alto Tajo in the highlands northeast of Madrid, to the magnificent fortifications of Toledo, all the way down to Lisbon, with its gateway to the whole wide World.

Stephen Buckley: Fractals and Real Dynamical Systems

Second edition on the way.
http://www.logicpress.ie/2020-1/index.html

Des MacHale: 1001 Silly Questions

Another Des MacHale gem on the way.
http://www.logicpress.ie/LS/2020-3/index.html

Why didn't God make women first, while He was fresh?

Lise O'Farrell's second novel, The Tears of God, just done:
http://www.logicpress.ie/LS/2020-2/index.html

Newly-discovered Fergal Anton book on limerucks just done.
http://www.logicpress.ie/LS/2020-1/index.html

Here is a limeruck:

Twain
A raft, on a river so wide,
A boy, and a slave by his side.
They trusted to luck,
Ole Jim, and young Huck,
But they've passed the Ohio! Oh, #*%!

Walter Hayman RIP

Walter died on New Year's Eve. He has been my friend for something over forty years. The world will not be the same without him. RIP.

ebooks

Learned how to make an epub version from a LibreOffice source. Submitted an ebook version of Fergal Anton's Tipperary Tango. This is currently available from Lulu.com, and pending approvals should be up soon on Apple, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kook, and the rest. The ISBN is 9780244071684. However, I've not yet found any ready-made way to make an epub from latex source, including properly-formatted mathematics and graphics.