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Il Teatro Buce last night featured a showing of The Duchess of Langeais, a sort of a French Mawsterpiece Theatre costume drama drawn from a Balzac novella. It was okay, a bit slow, not nearly as bad as the Observer reviewer thought, nor as good as the New York Times'.

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Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practised surgery for a long time before he took up medicine.

In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the world through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown to him.

History, said Marx, lies like a nightmare on the backs of the living. “Another Munich…” “Another Viet Nam…” “Another 9/11…” It’s remarkable how much our politics is shaped or determined or distorted by our fears of disappointments of what went before.

{Photo by Joe Germuska, used under a Creative Commons license.} As you can tell if you've read this blog for a while, I'm not much of a fan of escapist fiction. Yet at the same time, literature is my one big escape, distracting me during my commute and getting me through long lines at the grocery.

Coffee Quote of the Day July 17th, 2008 by Teresa “When we drink coffee ideas march in like the army” ~ Honore de Balzac Posted in Quote of the Day

Last week, Screengrab’s Andrew Osborne shared with you his favorite movies from the second quarter of 2008, so I figured that I might as well get in on the act as well. Unlike Andrew, I’ll be writing about my favorite releases dating back to the beginning of the year, mostly because I didn’t write one of these back in April.