Congratulations, Chris Duhon.

Tonight Chris Duhon set a new three-point shot record for the Chicago Bulls in their win over the Atlanta Hawks, by sinking eight of nine three-point shots, edging out the previous record of seven which was held by Jalein Rose, Jannero Pargo, and the legendary Micheal Jordan. Duhon's twenty-four points were also a season high for him. Also noteworthy, the Bulls have now won forty-six games, doubling last year's win total.

Anyway, I finished rereading "The Secret Sharer." It was a very informed second reading, aided perhaps by the reading I've been doing in my "interpreting cultural voices" seminar. We're reading from an anthology bookwhose theme is "Self and Other in global context." Joyce's "The Dead," Lu Xun's "Upstairs in a Wineshop," Rabindranath Tagore's "Punishment," Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis."

I also took advantage of this wonderous intra-net to grab a number of articles about "Sharer." About forty pages in three articles, that will be a whole 'nother read unto themselves. But for the time, I have a paper due in a little over a week.

I guess the one missing puzzle piece is the captain of the Sephora. What is he there for? Is he a foil to the narrator? In many ways, they are related; they both experience a harrowing experience on the seas, for instance. Archbold and his blurry-blue eyes go to pieces in the midst of the storm, and can't even give out an order while the whole crew is basically going bonkers. The Narrator has a similar moment when he's skirting his ship close to Koh-Ring island, but he manages to pull himself together at least to give orders. In both cases, Leggatt, sort-of saves the ship. In the first case he really saves the Sephora by going out and placing a precarious sail, but in the second instance a hat merely falls off his head.

Captain Archbold. He must mean something more articulate then all I can figure.