copies of xi Hya went out today

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currently reading Francis Ponge - a revelation (even allowing for my erratic (scl/erotic?) French)

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L & E away until Saturday - unsettling (what did we do before?)

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burning ball of a sun, 7:30 am, turning left onto Franklin Roosevelt

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Mallarme Divagations via Ponge

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set a half serious vocabulary test based on a Jersey Shore lexicon - now I know the meaning of "grenade" and " fist pump" ...

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order Michelle Serres' The Five Senses on the strength of his article in today's Le Monde. More ammunition (or so I hope),