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Subversive Fantasy

Maureen Dowd on "Downton Abbey" (yesterday's online NY Times) — "Watching the saga from the beginning this week, I saw the extent of the subversive fantasy: The servants rule…

Moving On…

"The first credential  we should demand of a critic  is his ideograph of the good." – Ezra Pound,   How to Read A spoiler from the 1974 novel in last…

Last Year's Valentine

A review… 1. Of posts a year ago today 2. Of posts from last year's Valentine Day A preview… "It is time to tell you of Faith and…

See More Glass

The first story of "The Snow Queen, in Seven Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) (see yesterday morning)— Story the First, Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments…

For the Padres

"I'm sorry to be catechizing you like this." — The girl in "What Dead Men Tell," by Theodore Sturgeon Q — "Why walk when you can fly?" — Mary…

Triumph of the Will

"… the human will cannot be simultaneously triumphant and imaginary." — Ross Douthat, Defender of the Faith,      in this afternoon's New York Times  at 3:25* PM…

Für Elise

(Continued)… The Snow Queen.

For Amy…

And for Scarlett — A Venus Flytrap From last evening's  John Fogerty 1984 video — From this morning's paper — Click the soup for some backstory. "Assume a can opener."

Hits

Wikipedia on a Springsteen album released on this date in 1973— "… when Columbia Records president Clive Davis  heard the album, he felt that it lacked a hit single….

Little Mornings…

… que cantaba el rey David. Update of 7 AM Jan. 5— See also Endor's Game.