"I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me..."

"... to be born, or at any rate, bred , in a handbag, whether it had handles or not..." Via Terry Teachout .

2 passages read recently on what makes an artist.

I've been rereading Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word" in Kindle the last couple days, and I ran across a great passage that ...

Oscar Wilde to be protected from kisses...

... on his tomb. In "A Woman of No Importance," Oscar Wilde wrote about kissing: MRS. ALLONBY. You think there is no woman in the...

"Bad for You" books.

The NYT Book Review this week has a theme: "Bad for You." I don't think the individual books are anywhere near as interesting ...

"If the sky above you/Grows dark and full of clouds..."

"And that old north wind begins to blow/Keep your head together/And call my name out loud...." So wrote Carole King , heard this m...

Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin. If you clicked on the Oscar Wilde link in the last post, you saw one of the fabulous Beardsley...

"Solomizing." Newsday.com tells us : Four days after presiding over a slew of same sex marriages in his quaint Hudson Valley vill...