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Ce Moment
My great friend Lisa Benson (a New Zealand artist) gave me one of her recent works—a small transparent red lucite card, like a thick credit card, with the words “CE MOMENT” cut out. She likes to hand them out to…
The fun part
I didn’t realize how fun it would be to see Encyclopedia of the Exquisite printed in foreign languages. German. Dutch. Korean. Lithuanian. With complex and simple Chinese characters to come. Would love to see it in Arabic…
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,…
Idleness by the Numbers
I’ve been too busy, so today I looked back at Essays in Idleness, by the medieval Japanese monk and scholar Yoshida Kenko (1283-1352). I need Kenko to remind me what it’s all about. “What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when…
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