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This is from Proust, either Combray or Times Rediscovered, I forget which:

The first edition of a work would have been more precious to me than the others but I should have understood by the first edition the one I read for the first time. I should seek original editions but by that I should mean books from which I got an original impression. For the impressions that follow are no longer original. I should collect the bindings of novels of former days, but they would be the days when I read my first novels, the days when my father repeated so often “Sit up straight”.

“Dum loquor hora fugit,” is in the main courtroom of the Ohio Supreme Court (something you should see if you visit Columbus). It means, roughly, “While you’re talking the hours are fleeing.” That’s funny, since each side has exactly 30 minutes to present its case, with a timer to keep track.

This was drawn for Amelia at her birthday party by RK.

I liked this plaid wrapping paper, which Tom and Euna sent to us. Why do I like it? The repeated pattern, the double way to look at it, the mild colors, perhaps.

Larry Kanfer is an Illinois photographer whose work I like. He has online images at http://kanfer.com/galleries.htm.

Here is a new art form. Use ink that is not waterproof, and dampen the napkin.