FIN DES SIÈCLES VARIÉS
1. In a world with Martha Stewart's craft-closet of cupcake wrappers, Jay Gatsby's ties seem as spartan as vegan sandals.
2. Failed flirtation with younger person: maimed by a ma'am.
3. Simon Doonan in The New Yorker: "Cinquante-six. Ever since I passed fifty, I'm aging in French. It's more glamorous."
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Oh, man. Yes. That "sir" is grievous bodily harm. For God's sake, can't you let an old geezer dream a bit?
ReplyDeleteOf course they cannot, not for a nanosecond.
ReplyDeleteI try to rationalize that they are merely saving us from the worst consequences of flirtation.
A former law partner married a woman fifteen years younger. At their wedding, his new and slightly buzzed sister-in-law in her toast recounted the first days of their budding romance. "My sister said, 'You know that one law school class? I think that Professor X is hitting on me!'"
I'd never before seen an entire ballroom squirm.