December 2011
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“Perhaps another family scandal—Reverend Sayers’s elderly brother Cecil had recently separated from his second wife after he had been caught in flagrante with a much younger woman in the potting shed—took the sting out of Dorothy’s announcement.” My goodness!
“Ludwig II of Bavaria is said to have honoured certain particularly impressive trees in his park by having them saluted.” Random factoid tossed into paragraph of Carl Jung’s Alchemical Studies: So many questions! How saluted? Twice daily, or just occasionally?
Susan Miller’s description of her Parrot Fever in this month’s Gemini horoscope is the best bit of authorial intrusion I’ve seen in a while. If I ever survived Parrot Fever I probably would be working it into everyone’s horoscopes too.
BONKING BORIS MADE ME PREGNANT, exclaimed the News of the World; BORIS SACKED FOR LYING OVER AFFAIR, gloated the Mail on Sunday; TORIES SACK JOHNSON OVER SEX CLAIM, dourly divulged The Scotsman.
I love Emma’s column. Also might have (appalling) new crush on Boris Johnson? Terrible politics, serial philandering, lack of physical attraction aside.
So what's it like in Ceylon? I'd much rather go to...
Near the end of Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer mentions a D.H. Lawrence letter that he describes as Lawrence’s “grouchiest letter ever - the grouchiest letter ever?” and a “masterpiece” of irritability. Dyer quotes choice bits from the letter; but if you were ever curious about how the whole thing read, here it is. I hunted it up at the library a while back. It was...
Today was the second anniversary of my dad’s death. I made an agreement with my mom early on that we weren’t going to mark this day, but instead his birthday (which falls in January), but nevertheless I’ve been counting down the past few weeks, and I can tell she has been too. My dad was a really funny person; I wish, if my memory was going to turn out so faulty, I’d...
Longreads: The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye,... →
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