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Idea of the day: The Trough of No Value , an idea peripherally related to Momus' anxious interval , only for material items rather than trends: The problem is that many kinds of objects go2008/3/10
Two years ago, I caught a sleeper train from Paris to Zurich. Not intentionally, mind you, but entirely by chance. I had originally intended to travel from Paris to Florence by sleeper train, departing2005/3/10
I finally got around to seeing Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement , at one of the few cinemas still screening it. It's a beautiful film; in some ways, it's not unlike Amélie , only with