tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3588318094407350953..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `No Ascetic Can Be Considered Reliably Sane'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-67832051439953678512011-05-15T03:50:19.996-05:002011-05-15T03:50:19.996-05:00Indeed! :P
*drool*Indeed! :P<br /><br />*drool*Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-41766902223543888792011-05-14T22:40:50.444-05:002011-05-14T22:40:50.444-05:00Sue, so right - now I feel better about the 7 yumm...Sue, so right - now I feel better about the 7 yummy fresh cannoli I ate in one afternoon - they were minis, still, I was feeling delightfully piggish. And I still have some cheesecake in the fridge...but now you have me thinking about eclairs...they can be soooo good when they are fresh!Margaretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-2415668182941503402011-05-14T06:20:43.105-05:002011-05-14T06:20:43.105-05:00You are adorable.
Especially when I've been p...You are adorable.<br /><br />Especially when I've been pigging out all week on chocolate eclairs and put on 2 kilos :PSuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-43138847444284121942011-05-14T05:35:41.631-05:002011-05-14T05:35:41.631-05:00North Point Press reissued An Appetite for Paris i...North Point Press reissued <i>An Appetite for Paris</i> in the early 1990s. I wish I could find my copy. Macmillan has what looks like the NPP edition.<br /><br />Don't most of us have the impulse to offer unsolicited advice? Some of us have eventually slowed down on noticing how rarely the recipient acts on it. But deep down the fourteen-year-old lives on.<br /><br />Ascesis and indulgence: as the local Borders was closing, I bought a slim collection of Cavafy's prose, where I found about midway an essay "The Pleasure Brigade" and at the three-quarters mark "On St. Simeon the Stylite". The latter might be laudatory out of patriotism as much as conviction, I suppose.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com