New Words: 1200 on Chapter 1 ("Those Who Came Before") Section 3 ("The Canal Builders") of Arizona. Poor Kwewu, aka Wolf, has no idea what he wants to do with his life, although he likes canals.
Total Words: 33900.
Reason For Stopping: Blasted warm weather temptations.
Book Year: 748.
Mammalian Assistance: Vegas actually was not in there because he was sunning himself in the bedroom window. Nate came in briefly at the beginning to sweep the room for snollygosters.
Exercise: Took Tucker on a neighborhood morning walk, then around about a third of campus last night.
Stimulants: Coke. Maybe this section has a different flavor.
Today's Opening Passage: A Michener / Rutherfurd-styled infodump:
Over the centuries since Ooljee and Yiska rediscovered the Real Place, the Uto-Aztecan culture grew and spread phenomenally. Some common words and traditions held on, but eventually as the people spread, their cultures expanded with them. Generation after generation the details of stories changed, accommodating to the places where the people found themselves; different dialects evolved into different languages. Each people became set apart in some ways—but the network of knowledge and trade still thrived for hundreds of miles in all directions.
Darling Du Jour: Nothing particularly springs out at me.
Non-Research / Review Books In Progress: Michener; the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.