"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.... Sentimentality about nature denatures everying it touches"--Jane Jacobs (excerpted in Lapham's Quarterly)
"This time, John Wayne will not ride off into the sunset with Grace Kelly."
"That's Gary Cooper, asshole!"
--Die Hard
"Of all the terrorists in the world, I had to kill the only one with feet smaller than my sisters"--ibid.
Dreamed of reading that an ancestor of mine had been convicted on corruption charges. (That's what comes from watching The Sopranos.)
Had my last singing lesson fro a while. We did "Di Provenza," which is another song that taxes my upper vocal range.
On the way home I booked a session with my shrink Dr. Hassan.
Dinner was lamb stew.
Saw John McTiernan's Die Hard (for the first time) at the Bloor. A hit cat & mouse adventure, often corny but pretty entertaining overall. (Alan Rickman, as the villain, of course made off with the show.)
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