The special flavor coffee of the day at the library café is Blueberry Cobbler. Uh, it’s all for you. It’ll be the Breakfast Blend to accompany me through the next few hours, and, oh, maybe also a bottle of chocolate milk—but only ’cause the label says it contains 67 percent more calcium than regular milk. Osteoporosis, begone!

I’m working on an explication de texte of the beginning of Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann, and I just took a look at my notes, which include:

“E. Time and consciousness? This is the bit where he wakes up and is like, ‘Whoa, I’m Charles the Fifth. But it’s cool, clearly I am Charles the Fifth.’ C/F Bergson.”

So maybe no more coffee tonight, then.