When I was growing up in these mountains, I was always taught that culture was someplace else, and that when the time came, I’d be sent off to get some. Now everybody here realizes that we don’t have to go anyplace else to “get culture” — we’ve got our own, and we’ve had it all along.
--Lee Smith, Think Global, Read Local
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
You've made the big time--I saw your quote in the Guardian!! Too cool! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm rather embarrassed--nattering on about red pistachio dye. Yikes.
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I actually thought it was kind of cute to think of a young reader making notes with red pistachio dye--was that some sort of pen?
ReplyDeleteOh, no, just stains from my fingers. So glad they don't put that dye on the nuts anymore. . .
ReplyDeleteOh duh. That's right, they used to dye the shells red, didn't they? I guess you were a pistachio fan in your youth?
ReplyDeleteSecond only to chestnuts. :)
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