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It’s been too long! I just wanted to drop a line here on an article about Keats and Shelley meeting at Lake Geneva in the New York Times (See it here), as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite‘s entry on…
The Lobster Quadrille
I do like Lewis Carroll, but I love director Jonathan Miller‘s 1966 film “Alice in Wonderland,” based on that fateful fall down the rabbit hole. It was made for the BBC and it is everything that you could hope for,…
Hot Cross Buns, the Sequel
It’s that time of year. Last spring, when I started this blog, one of my first posts was about the tradition of baking Hot Cross Buns around Easter-time. Needless to say, I can never get enough of a good thing….
Kumari of Kathmandu
The Kumari’s temple in Kathmandu, Nepal is one of the favorite places I’ve visited, probably because while I was standing in the courtyard the young, kohl-eyed Kumari herself—as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite—appeared in the temple window like a…
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