Orts #910

Her plots are as easily detachable from her books as dead branches from a living tree.
     -- Edith Wharton, of George Eliot, in a review of a biography of Eliot, 1902
 

- a new celebrity chef bursts onto the scene -
https://bit.ly/2B2S0aM

 

George H. W. Bush, who died Friday [November 30], at ninety-four, is likely to be remembered as the last President of the republic not to have been intensely despised by a significant portion of its population.

      -- The New Yorker, December 1, 2018         https://bit.ly/2BPV5vz
 

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a thoughtful and encouraging article from The New Yorker

https://bit.ly/2S0j9oH