" . . . the Willoweses were a conservative family and kept to old-fashioned ways . . . Finding that well chosen wood and well-chosen wine improved with keeping, they believed that the same law applied to well-chosen ways." -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, LOLLY WILLOWES.
I go through Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal fairly often and commuted thorugh them for decades. Shudder. In my observation there is nothing lazier or more ineffectual than a Port Authority cop. Clearly dangerous people free-range totally unimpeded.
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Donad Fagen's girlfriend told me that he actually felt he should have become a literary critic. I met and talked with him enough times to know that that was not some empty rock star conceit, it was a realistic alternative path. He was terrifically well read and articulate about it.
Sage futures up sharply in early trading.
And maybe stop crushing so damned much on the Mitford family? (He was married to Diana, a committed fascist.)
I turned off the game. I went upstairs. I am so sorry. Dear Mr. Anunoby, will you accept my apology?
Dear Mr. Faulkner:
In regard to your typescript for THE SOUND AND THE FURY . . .
"Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous."
--an epitaph for our times, courtesy of Nathanael West
A very fine review of a terrific, must-read book.
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