Looking for a way to avoid getting back to work just yet? Here's something else to read:

• "The School" by Donald Barthelme
• Two Aztec myths (from "The Hungry Woman: Myths and Legends of the Aztecs" by John Bierhorst)
• The Origin of the World
• The Origin of Death
• A passage from "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
• Two very short stories by Franz Kafka (translated by Willa and Edwin Muir)
• "A Little Fable"
• "Before the Law"
• Canto 3 of the Kalevala ("The Singing Match": translated by Keith Bosley)
• Mark Twain on imperialism (notes for a book called "Glances at History" or "Outlines of History")
• A passage from "The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis", edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
• The first paragraph of "If on a winter's night a traveler" by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver)
• The beginning of the Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough.
• Three Norse myths (from the "Prose Edda" of Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jean I. Young)
• The Binding of Fenrir
• The Death of Baldr
• Ragnarök
• "The Second Bakery Attack" by Haruki Murakami (translated by Jay Rubin)
• A passage from "Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia" by Dennis Covington
• "Where Is The Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty
• "The Norwegian Rat" by Naguib Mahfouz (translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)
• A passage from "Moominvalley in November" by Tove Jansson (translated by Kingsley Hart)
• Two "One-Minute Stories" by István Örkény
• "Memoirs of a Puddle" (translated by László T. András)
• "The Last Cherry Pit" (translated by Judith Sollosy)
• "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams
• "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" by Kenneth Koch
• "The Hen and the Oriole" by Don Marquis
• A sonnet by William Wordsworth
• Two limericks (sort of) seen on the door of an English teacher at Kanda University, Makuhari, Japan.
• A haiku by me, inspired by the above limericks
• Two poems by W.B. Yeats
• The Hosting of the Sidhe
• The Second Coming

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