Jun 3, 2019#148: ON CONSOLATION.#148. ON CONSOLATION. One of the most famous passages in Gibbon is his description of the imprisonment and assassination of Boethius. ...
May 15, 2019#147: THE SHAME OF THE STREETS.#147: THE SHAME OF THE STREETS. Strange what you’ll run into: Bubu de Montparnasse , by Charles-Louis Philippe, which I discovered on...
May 14, 2019#146: THE UNDERWORLD--WITH MUSIC.#146: THE UNDERWORLD—WITH MUSIC. One of the pleasures of comedy, of course, is when a character opens his mouth and says something...
