For completeness: The UK/Canada Modern Classics that I own not for domicile-adornment purposes, but to actually read: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano (read last year) and James Joyce’s Ulysses (currently still reading).

Under the VolcanoUlysses

A convulsing, macabre Mexican Day of the Dead mask on the Lowry; the Martello Tower ethereally wreathed in the novel’s opening and closing words on the Joyce. Both are fine designs — better than any current U.S. editions of them — but I wouldn’t hang them up. The Lowry, I wouldn’t want that horrible thing grinning out at me from the wall all the time. And the Joyce, even if the book were not too thick for the shadow-box frames I use (which it is), I am only up to page 372, and I likely won’t be finished until sometime in the two-thousand-teens.

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I’m Scott David Herman, I’m an American living in Canada, and I’ve been running erasing.org since 1999.

The expatriate life is very glamorous. I live and work on the fifth floor of a mid-rise glass-and-concrete ant farm situated in the abandoned ruins of downtown Hamilton, that legendary city many call the most beautiful smoke-spewing slag heap in all of Southern Ontario.

I enjoy staring into open books, mentally rotating Shakespeare’s skeleton, stacking objects in my quote-unquote office, and chopping at the Parnassian permafrost in the company of my wife Laura.

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