This morning, however, I decided to soldier on and finished Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family and The Street. The former would have been probably completely unbearable for me had I read it yesterday, because even though I'm not white, I am at some point descended from Africa. However, reading it just before The Street, made it completely bearable. A simple pro-America story with colonialism as a positive attribute! Very different from my normal concepts about the American Conquest.
I think that if there are enough of these "lighter" digressions, I won't have to cheat and can focus solely on this project.
