Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Short Note: Welcome to the last day of translations! If we get a donation here today, the same as for the rest of the weekend and this upcoming Monday, there’ll be some extra entries coming for all of you in the following days! Enjoy and have a great one!

Claude Lecouteux (The Tradition of Household Spirits. Ancestral Lore and Practice). Ceremony of “Lares and Di Penates”. The owner of the house pours beer in one of the corners of the common room so the Lares come (laribus refocillandis). Pay attention, Romania! According to Paul-Henri Sthal, the house has corners that you have to avoid.

Today I worked the entire day in Valeria’s film. I did nine pages. I’m already at twenty pages, which makes a third of the film, which isn’t bad for two days of work. We saw a patrioric-crime DVD by Henry Hathaway with James Steward [T.N.: Written like that] (Call Northside 777).

Day 1748

Translated by Jaime Grijalba