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Paris Syndrome affects around 20 tourists a year, mostly Japanese, for some reason. It appears to spring from the shock of the disparity between the popular image of Paris – of accordions, flowers and cobbled streets – and the exposure to, say, the Place de Clichy at night. via telegraph.co.uk Posted via web from Patti’s … Continue reading Words of One Syllable Dept.
via lettersofnote.com It’s easy for me to forget Eliot’s light-hearted side, overwhelmed as I used to be by his more famous poems, but here is an excellent example of that side. Posted via web from Patti’s posterous
I am actually in the middle of reading this. Anyone else? One way to think about what a work of art does is to imagine the counterfactual—how would my life have been different had I not spent the last three months reading War and Peace? The answers, I think, tend to group into three categories: … Continue reading The Millions: Reading War and Peace: The Effects of Great Art on an Ordinary Life
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