January 2010
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“december dark at six o’clock. remember??”
– the fiery furnaces
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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin … “is to learn something. That’s...”
– T.H. White “The Once and Future King”
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The Return of the Automobile as a Sexual Object
How is it that the country that made us all fall in love with the automobile has failed, with only a few exceptions, to produce a single family sedan with the style and humor and grace of the cars produced in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s? Put aside the question of whether those models were male (as in longer, lower and wider, Dr. Freud) or female (as in fender skirts, curvy belt lines and, of course,...
