Cf. "Bouvard & Pécuchet", but what I really want to know is whether their beards both exhibited cake crumbs.

PURITAN comedians, no less.

P.S. I'm surprised the Guardian piece didn't mention "Lola"'s B-side, "Berkeley Mews", memorializing the singer's first experience with seduction.

I love that song & testify that when it came out, & for a decade afterwards, it was the most positive message you could hear on American AM radio.

In this lesson scenario, our POV hero visits a local arts fair & is intrigued by the booth that contains nothing but paintings of letter boxes.

Rosetta Stone, via our fabulous local public library. Go get 'em, tiger!

Which reminds me, I've been wanting to show off my recent photo of a coyote family:

Photo of of man saying "Oui, je suis facteur. Je trouve mes idées quand je conduis ma fourgonette de livraison."

Encountered un frère de @kevinboniface.bsky.social in this morning's French lesson.

I don't know if it's my favorite soundtrack but it's assuredly my favorite music video.

from PUNK: "Lester" Bangs - Loud-mouthed phony - "Works" during the day as "rock-critic".

Close, though, & it must be an at least interesting experience to be close to Garbo.

Worse: Yo-Yo Ma, lazy as hell. A Who stadium show in Philly not long after Cincinnati helped convince me 1) to never attend another stadium show & 2) I really only liked Moonie & 1960s Townshend songs. And I became more skeptical about Fred Frith after several pointless dicking arounds.

Better: A whole lot of decent concerts, since one always wonders, but my biggest surprise was probably how good Smokey Robinson still sounded c. 1990 or so. Most frequently confirmed: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, my equivalent of attending CBGBs whenever Television played.

The John Birch Society was against him & for Nixon, so this checks by me. (John Berryman was, as well, but I wouldn't take political advice from John Berryman either.)

*hugs*

Speaking as a sissy boy who worried a lot about Black Beauty & Old Yeller, what happened to that excellent Zoomer? IS IT OK?

Sorry, but this information can only be obtained by wandering around Germany for a year while the benign worldwide Masonic conspiracy toys with you.

nous avons distingué trois sortes d'extases ou trois degrés dans l'extase, selon qu'elle suspend seulement les sens externes, c'est le degré le plus imparfait; ou qu'elle enchaîne à la fois les sens du dehors et ceux du dedans, - c'est le second degré; ou enfin, qu'elle élève au-dessus des sens et de l'entendement, - c'est le troisième degré, de tous le plus parfait. / L'extase du premier degré est quelquefois accordée aux commençants ....

For example, a quick nineteenth century check in GBooks tosses up "La Mystique Divine" by M. J. Ribet:

I've been hoping to someday bump into a historically oriented French dictionary myself! For the specific question, my first thought is that it might have migrated from philosophy or theology.

One of the classic box sets, for sure!

It's the hot wholesome sex of Milton's Eden.

Michael Sarrazin as Frankenstein's fantasy boyfr, er, monster.

I'm OK with this.

Boredom makes a good platform from which to fucking dive.

Luv that Brattle!

OCR & unpaywalled internet publication were & remain its sole & indispensable (I wish!) accomplishments.

"She has talked to psychiatrists, she knows about the German male at puberty. On their backs in the meadows and mountains, watching the sky, masturbating, yearning."

Given the novel's sexual proclivities, your revised first line fits the original title just fine.

I come from the "personal is the political" era, but I drew from that the corollary that "the political" virtually never has a noticeable effect.

On a similar yet different topic, this was my Dubya-Bush-era response to a call for "brief statements about what we think the role of politics in the study of literature might be":
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But for me fiction seems uniquely good at COMPLICATING political ideas, sometimes to the point of opposing the writer's own conscious opinions.