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Working Week

Or All Work and No Play… This time, no amateur philosophizing, no more fooling around. Introducing the fully illustrated newsletter (which means I can substract nine thousand words and still get away with it). Started in the evening, after spending the day reworking...

Velvet Curtains and Scotch Tape

Or Vivacissimo Con Violenza We have a friend who sings at the opera. Whenever we can, we go to see him sing, so a few weeks ago we were in snowbound Besançon, to see Puccini’s Tosca. You know the end of the story. Tosca, after stabbing Scarpia, and wrenching...