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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Subtitled: Christmas Eve 2010, the Sacred and the Profane. First we went to church. Then we had a dance party. Merry Christmas, wherever you find yourself this year.
Before the waters of Christmas close over me
I’ve been anticipating Christmas, some might say dreading it, since last summer. And now, almost suddenly despite its protracted inevitability (as J’s dad writes in his annual holiday masterpiece, “We are just shy of Thanksgiving, but as usual the holiday … Continue reading
Mr. Maxwell
A year or so ago a friend turned me on to Sarah Waters, and I was totally taken in by her fiction. She’s contemporary, so I read her with the conscious anticipation of what’s next, knowing — figuring — that … Continue reading
Lost in translation
On the RER B line headed to l’aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.
What’s this?
It’s the side of the Louvre no one ever sees. Here are a few shots of the better known facades, from our stroll through the cours (Carrée, Napoléon). And the Institut de France from the Louvre.
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Tagged cour carree, cour napoleon, l'institut de france, musee du louvre, paris
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Astonishment in the Head
For six months I have been working my way through my college professor Suzanne Marrs’s new book, What There Is to Say We Have Said: the Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell. At the end of Approaching Eye Level, … Continue reading →