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I stepped out of the courthouse. Am I, I asked myself, in lockstep with August stepping out of the calendar? Already rain had begun falling when I walked toward the taxi. The drops had the size of…
I watched her from another table. With a fork she fed her two dogs, Yorkshire terriers, squatting on two chairs beside her. She would twirl two or three strands of spaghetti around a fork and the dog…
Francois Boucher’s painting, “Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Water,” comes across as an odd man out. Boucher, a French rococo painter who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century, built his reputation as a…
Not too long ago, the wife and I spent a weekend at my sister and brother-in-law’s beach property on the western side of the island. We took a long, winding road that crossed the mountains, passing by…
I have not had much success with seeds. Lately, I bought packets of them — morning glory, bitter melon, eggplant — which I entrusted to the help for potting. After a week, when I inquired about them,…
In 1953, Nikos Kazantzakis published a novel entitled, “The Greek Passion.” It is set in the 1920s, towards the end of the Greco-Turkish war. The village of Lycovrissi, which lies inside Turkey, holds a live Passion play…
In the Second World War, Allied forces bombed Magdeburg, setting fire to the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum where the Nazis had kept the paintings they had seized for being “degenerate.” Together with the works of such as Marc Chagall,…
From where I sat I had a view of the street through the pane, and seeing the flow of people and cars and far off the occasional flight of birds added a special condiment to my cappuccino.…
The sea offers a most exhilarating view. At high tide, as the breeze touches the face with the softest of feathers, the water sways, trying to balance itself. But from a distance the unevenness of the waves…
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