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Bedroom chair | 30 January 2010 Postcard | 16 January 2010 At the end of Anthony Powell’s The Acceptance World, Nick Jenkins contemplates a postcard from Jean arranging their rendezvous. The postcard portrays a woman sitting on a man’s lap on a red velvet chair in a bedroom, exchanging “ardent glances … evidently on the best of terms.” One could not help thinking how extraordinarily unlike “the real thing” was this particular representation of a pair of lovers; indeed, how indifferently, at almost every level except the highest, the ecstasies and bitterness of love are at once conveyed in art. So much of the truth remains finally unnegotiable; in spite of the fact that most persons in love go through remarkably similar experiences. … The matter was presented as all too easy, the twin flames of dual egotism reduced almost to nothing, so that there was no pain; and, for that matter, almost no pleasure. And the last line of the novel: Perhaps, in spite of everything, the couple on the postcard could not be dismissed so easily. It was in their world that I seemed now to find myself. The drinks of the new year | 1 January 2010 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Top to bottom: St. Ambroise apricot wheat ale, vodka tonic with cucumber, riesling, Dos Equis, apple cider, and bubbly on the eve; coffee and mimosas in the morning. Nows | 31 December 2009 Forever — is composed of Nows — Lamps | 29 December 2009 One of our many lamps; this one sits in the corner between two sofas and lights my book when I read on the old blue couch at night. Do you mind? | 24 December 2009 We recorded another video on our American Thanksgiving road trip (see last year’s), this time to Robbie Williams’s “Do You Mind”. We are, as Scott mentioned, dorks, and apparently unashamed of it. (I’m posting this now because my website disappeared for 24 hours and even though no one noticed and it really didn’t matter at all I feel like I must do something to welcome it back. Also I’m worried that the holiday spirit will overtake me shortly, via eggnog, from which I do not plan to emerge for another eight days or so.) Do You Mind from SDH on Vimeo. Sexy new chair | 24 October 2009 Acrylics | 20 October 2009 Happy birthday, luvvy. Sunset after rain | 4 October 2009 ![]() The new place, empty | 1 September 2009 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 50 years | 31 August 2009 ![]()
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