[close reading] Attention mainly to section I, but with some interpretation of what it would mean to break the (genetic) code to smithereens: mutagenic agents, that would be, including the radiation after Hiroshima ("smashed atoms of the dead, my dears").  Some snarkiness about Colm Toibin's novel about Henry James since he read later that day: his reading was grand and I regret the snarkiness, as I say in the next class, TK.