Anne Denoon

Didn't realize he was that young.

Oddly enough I recall feeling bored by it even as an artsy young'un in the '60s. Probably wasn't brave enough to say so, though.

From the excerpt, this looks great!

Still have one!

💙! A nice Steerforth Press edition of three of her novels came out in 1997.

And hers.

Former teenage movie-mag reader here: weren't they *an item* back then? (Can't recall what I had for breakfast, but this I remember.)

Mhz choice is offering 6 euros.

This has *got* to be AI!

#MosaicMonday

They've always looked like weapons to me.

Heavens! (Notables often don't look at all as one imagines. The glory & curse of the internet age.)

Great selection! Just read the Cheever @ the link. Currently have DeWitt from the library. Bookmarking the others.

*One word* about Eric Blore and I won't be responsible for my actions!

Floor mosaic, 1920s, depicting a brown pudding in orange and silver flames on a silver plate. The background is grey and the tablecloth is white, with a sprig of green at the front. A tondo with holly around its inner edge and a gold-coloured ring with the inscription "Christmas Pudding."

Boris Anrep, 1883-1969
Christmas Pudding
floor mosaic, c.1928-33
The National Gallery, London

#MosaicMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas 🎄🎨

Photo of a young man on a phone in a Paris booth. [Fernand Raynaud’s] sketches such as the one in which the Parisian tries to call the suburb of Asnieres and finds it so hopeless that he finally places the call through New York were within a hairline of possibility. De Gaulle had declared the telephone to be “un gadget” (defined in the Petit Robert dictionary as “objet ménager amusant et nouveau”), and investment in telephone equipment was out of the question until after his retirement. - Mavis Gallant in “Paris: The Taste of a New Age” from Paris Notebooks This helps to explain the mysterious vagaries of Parisian telephones as I experienced them in the 1960s and even the 1970s. Back then, public phones seemed to function only sporadically and apartments came with their own historically attached numbers and instruments, listed (if at all) under the name of some long-departed owner or tenant. Legend had it that obtaining a new number, under one’s own name, would take years, if not decades. [Photo: Jean-Pierre Léaud in Francois Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses, 1968]

Here I plagiarize my own 2014 Tumblr post* (with some words by #MavisGallant) to enlarge upon an earlier skeet about the adventure of telephoning in #Paris.

*possibly already read by every one of my eight followers there.

Go for it!

✔️funny how that happens.

Those were the days!

Can't go wrong with Stanwyck & MacMurray!

...the block list had something to do with my use of the phrase "oil on canvas" but beyond that I understand nothing.

Yes, I'm losing it, but at first glance that window looked like a huge monitor & the book like a keyboard...

Quickly searches "Luddite" in unpublished manuscript - did I use it correctly, or must I delete?

A blurred black and white photo of a tall, arched portal at the Louvre, with open iron gates, two lanterns and two cement bollards. Four figures have just passed through it onto the quay. A bare tree and some lampposts, the Pont des Arts (under scaffolding) and, across the river, the cupola of l'Institut de France.

Leaving the Louvre on a foggy winter day.
#Minox📷 by me, 1978.

Exiting the Cour Carrée via the Porte des Arts.
[The 2025 heist site is just on the right outside the arch.]

Le Pont des Arts (under scaffolding in photo) leads across the Seine to L'Institut de France.

#Louvre #Paris #1970s

Two unsettling Bsky moments today (so far!):

1. I realized I'd been taken in (with 100s of others, but still) by an AI cute-animal video.

2. I was added to new a block/mute list, the point of which I can't decipher.

Oh, well, now back to posting about obscure things of interest to me alone...

✔️Mood.

Fair. (I did enjoy it!)

I dunno. Scolds are unappealing, to be sure, but do I hate feeling like a dope. (Now questioning Zapruder.)

Oh dear, looks like this is fake. The "too good to be true" rule should have been a warning. (I reposted it, too.)😞

I know this one! (Hint: it involves 2 males of royal birth.)