Deux-Chevaux de luxe Beautiful example of French ingenuity. Quote of the Day ”Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” Thomas Mann Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Wagner | Tristan und Isolde, Act III: Liebestod| Karajan and the Berliner Phil Link As Groucho Marx might have observed, I don’t like the look of Wagner, but I sure like the noise he makes. Long Read of the Day 3 Lessons on Writing from Joan Didion’s Notes This essay by Jillian Hess will be interesting to anyone who is interested in the writing process and/or the work of Joan Didion. I tick both of those boxes, which is why I liked it. This is how Didion defines a writer: “a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.”1 Anyone who has read Didion’s writing will not be surprised by this definition—her prose could only have been written by a person who passionately arranged words, hour after hour, day after day. Before I went to see Joan Didion’s papers…
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