Possibly my favorite corner in this big city.
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NYC
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RIP, Patrick Stewart In 1978, as a college junior, I saw Patrick Stewart as Enobabus in the RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra. Glenda Jackson played Cleopatra. She was good; Stewart was masterful. After almost 50 years, it’s Patrick Stewart whom I remember.
Here he discusses the role.
And here is a sample.
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Before the crowd Truck Yard, Dallas
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This is Happiness by Niall Williams There was no reason to suppose the fine weather had only come for Easter, but if reason accounted for all that human beings did the history of the world would be a straightforward telling.
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What’s It Like to Be … The podcast What’s it Like to Be … with Dan Heath is a real treat. Especially great is “What’s It Like to Be a Piano Tuner,” which is a conversation with a master piano tuner at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall. It’ll make you smile.
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I dwell in possibility This poetry project by A.O. Scott of the NYTimes is lovely. And the latest offers a wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson:
I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -Of Chambers as the Cedars -
Impregnable of eye -
And for an everlasting Roof. The Gambrels of the Sky -Of Visitors - the fairest -
For Occupation - This -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands. To gather Paradise - -
Tasty 
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Currently reading. And enjoying. He had the wan face of a farmer in calving season, eyes small from lack of sleep and close encounters with viscera.
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A Half-Dozen Feel-Good Movies Feel like sharing some of yours?
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