Thursday
From 20 Memes of Questionable Humor from the ‘Comedy Cemetery’ by Jaimie Hamilton, msm.com:
I know it sounds like a broken record, but the amount of government fraud in the USA is staggering. More is uncovered each day. Let’s hope the unearthing of it doesn’t end if Dems take control of congress.
Headline from nypost.com: “Pol calls for ‘common sense’ after gov-funded PSA urged grandparents to get consent before hugging grandkids.” Shoot me.
From NYP: “Persian Gulf oil exports surpass pre-war high as market adapts to Iran’s attacks.” When will there be relief at the pump? My guess — after the election.
From NYP: “French Apple store looters get unpleasant surprise on stolen iPhones: ‘Disabled and being tracked’.” Unfortunately, there probably isn’t enough room in prisons for all the slimes. Reopen the Bastille!
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Born in Topeka, the son of psychologists, Ben Lerner excelled in competitive forensics and policy debate in high school, winning a national title. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s at Brown. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, poet, novelist and essayist. He has had four novels and several collections of poetry published. I just finished his first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station. Published in 2011, it is the story of an American poet, bi-polar, Ivy-league educated, on fellowship in Spain. While I did not relate to the smoking, drinking and drug use, to which I’ve always had a natural aversion, I did relate to his state of mind, his constant lying and his efforts with women. I was especially amused by his faking his way through Spanish, which I do to this day after having minored in it in college circa 1970. Although the narrative adheres closely to real life, it is interesting, quite a trick to pull off. The prose and dialogue are solid, the vocabulary stellar. There were instances when I had no idea what the protagonist was talking about, but that may be a reflection of my age, 76, or the fact that he is on a much higher intellectual plane than I. Unless I missed something about the unappealing title, it seems it would have been more approriate to have used something like Lost in Spain. The book’s appeal is probably limited to writers, artists and those who prefer works out of the mainstream. The 181 pages of the large paperback edition read like less. 1500+ users at Amazon have rated Leaving…, forging to a consensus of 4.1 on a scale of five. I’ll go with 3.25, unable to shed my disgust with smoking, etc. The author is a father of two. Facts from Google AI mode, photo from Google Images:
The wind finally backed off about halfway through today’s session of the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. My thanks to the gentleman who swapped two hardcovers in English for one in Russian, and to the woman who bought two books in that language; and to the one who purchased a handbag; and to the young man who took home Psychic Power (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life Books, Mystic Places by George Constable, The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and the DVD of Under the Tuscan Sun (2003); and to the woman who selected a gift for a friend visiting from England: Queen Elizabeth II’s Guide to Life by Karen Dolby.
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