1902: Update

- I'll read a book of every of the Nobel Prize for Literature Laureates, in chronological order.

Yeah... I'd love to bend that rule, really.
The two problems I have with Mommsen are that as great and interesting "A History of Rome" is, it is
a) hard to find: in the whole of Berlin, there is one library that offers it to take it home (and I'm certainly not reading eight volumes crouched in the stale air of the library reading rooms), and I'm not willing to pay €35 per volume to have it around for longer than the four weeks the library grants you, which is a problem because
b) you need a good amount of time to read. It's harder to read than the average textbook I read for class and you certainly can't read it in the subway on your way to and fro. You need quiet and calm, and worse, you need a clear, concentrated, craving mind.
And since all my craving at the moment is reserved for "The umlaut as a constant in the history of the german language" and reconstructed proto-indo-european laryngals... I'd love to change for something a bit less intense.

But then, I made the rules, I'm going to follow them. No Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson until the end of the Roman Empire.

Mommsen taught at the university I currently study at, actually. I walk past his bust occasionally, and when no one's watching, I wink at him.