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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Ban on Solo Encores at the Met? Ban, What Ban?

I saw Juan Diego Flórez in Barber of Seville, and thought him magnificent.

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Mrs. Palfrey

“She did not explain to him how deeply pessimistic one must be in the first place, to need the sort of optimism she now had at her command.” (85)

Yo? Yo me voy

Such times test a man's soul

Margaret Bourke-White

Undeserved is something we cannot judge and the very word has to be exiled outside our consciousness or we could waste what little life we have ahead by complaining that we don't deserve such a fate.

In search of melancholy baby

Emigrating is something like going to your own funeral, the only difference being that after your funeral your nervous system calms down

Words

perlicue: space between the extended forefinger and thumb
decussate: cross or intersect so as to form a cross
lipogram: avioding one or more letters of alphabet
univocalic: using only one vowel
Perendinate

Narrative

Janet Malcolm paraphrased in "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius: the only narrative that can not be questioned is fiction.

12 January 2009

Duke

"Without a problem," Duke Ellington is quoted saying, "how much interest do you take in anything?"

Churchill

Mr. Churchill, you are drunk.

Madame, you are ugly.

Mr. Churchill, you are extremely drunk!

And you, Madame, are extremely ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober.