Orts #995

Sep 13, 2020

- the bittersweet tale of the Piano Man of Washington Square Park -

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/nyregion/coronavirus-pianist-washington-square-nyc.html

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The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens

   A lane to the land of the dead.

     — W. H. Auden, from
          As I Walked Out One Evening

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He was a real estate guy and she had curb appeal.
-- Dwight Garner, in a book review, explaining how Melania Knauss became The Donald's third wife
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/books/review-art-of-her-deal-melania-trump-mary-jordan.html

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Curmudgeon