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Forgetting and Remebering (by Martin Stannard)
(Gadzooks! How I adore English life!) Homage to Paul Violi Too often I forget how it begins in the morning and ends in the early night. I forget how I love the way I…
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“Brute Force” (1947) with Burt Lancaster in the background as I type
strong pentitentiary drama with good supporting cast directed by Jules Dassin I recommend it heartily on a night when TCM is finding liberty behind bars, a breakout, a pin-up girl that all the boys…
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More Barzun on Espionage
Though Jacques Barzun in "Meditations on the Literature of Spying" (1965) reveals that he is no fan of recent developments in the espionage genre, he makes a number of observations that I, as an…
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An Extra Seat at the Table [by Jake Adam York]
A guest in another’s house, I am admiring, marveling at his taste, her taste, or I am simply curious, noticing a peculiarity of the house or the housekeeping, discovering some device I wonder how…
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A Riddle from “The Earliest English Poems”
Many were met, men of discretion,wisdom and wit, when in there walked. . . Two ears it had, and one eye solo,two feet and twelve hundred heads,back, belly, a brace of handsa pair of…
