Harvard

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The older buildings are mostly of red brick. Not as attractive as the stone edifices of Princeton. Wait till B sees Yale, someday.

The building security guards don't want you to use the resstrooms, though the buildings are open to the public.

All the art museum galleries are closed, in preparation for being consolidated into one giant art museum.

We contented ourselves with the Museum of Semitic Archaeology, which was small but free and quite interesting. Walk-through exhibit of daily life among the ancient Hebrews.

First try at a used book store not quite as enticing as the little old ones over in Boston.

Ride on subway reminded me of Tom Lehrer's unrecorded song listing the stations. How many songs are there about subways, anyway? The Man Who Never Returned, Take the A Train, JC Cohen, Gilbert and Sullivan's Nightmare Song ...

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When I visited my oldest friend in Amherst for her fiftieth birthday, back around the turn of the millennium, I thought Massachusetts had truly wonderful bookstores (she took me around to see several of them!). They far exceeded anything I've seen in San Diego.

(On the other hand, my most vivid impression was of visiting a store that had an entire wall of literary criticism, where from a quick scan a third was Marxist and another third was psychoanalytic. I felt almost a mild nausea at the thought of all those volumes based on two theories of human nature and society that have long been known to be seriously out of touch with reality.)

I don't have any idea what the bookstore are like in Massachusetts now. I hope they haven't died back as badly as the ones hereabouts; there's something satisfying about looking over shelves full of books and seeing what jumps out at you. I do my research for GURPS books by that method, but at the SDSU library, not at bookstores. . . .

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A couple more subway songs:

"Don't Sleep In The Subway" (recorded by Petula Clark, but I'm not sure who wrote it)
"Doctor Diamond" by King Crimson

Tube songs

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Finchley Central, a rescension of The Rock Island Line as The Piccadilly Line, the one that might even be called The London Underground Song (???)...

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Michelle Shocked- 'Graffiti Limbo'