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  • ...is a happy, ordinary, middle-aged, suburban woman who paints odd pictures, gardens in a straw hat, lives with the love of her life, is owned by one cat and the ghosts of several others, and walks a little funny 'cause she has a fake leg. She started this website because there's more to life than what we lose, and we need to let each other know what's possible, even if it's only a happy, ordinary life.

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dale

This is
So wonderful.

So lovingly told and so *present*.

I've lately come to the conclusion that the secret of practically everything is never to be in a hurry, ever, about anything.

(By way of Patry. I had to come see who had such wonderful taste in books. Well, apart from the inexplicable liking for Balzac. Nobody's perfect, I guess :->)

Sara

Thank you, Dale. It's lovely to see you here, and I'm glad you enjoyed this.

However, don't be badmouthing Balzac unless you've read Catherine de Medici. I love him and everything of his that I've ever read, even though I never picked up any of his work until well after I fell down the stairs at the Hôtel Biron, which was but shortly after viewing Rodin's sculpture series of him from bulgingly naked to cloaked and enigmatic; didn't even pick him up, in fact, until I spent a winter in Haines, Alaska, which was itself long after I'd also fallen down Mt. Roberts in Juneau, but I digress. Catherine de Medici was his breakthrough work, IMO. Very, very subtle and deep -- and sardonic, of course, as always. Read carefully and astutely and you will never think of Nostradamus the same way again.

dale

Catherine de Medici? Okay. Maybe, maybe I'll give him one last go. I've never made it through one of his novels. The last time I tried Pere Goriot, really tried, because the same friend who turned me on to Milan Kundera insisted I read it, but after fifty pages I just couldn't take any more damp wallpaper and moldy furniture. I threw in the towel :-)

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