Starting and Restarting
[Image above is captioned: “Hoagy Carmichael* pretending to crank start a car.” From the Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University.] From whiskey river, still mining the William Stafford vein...
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[Caption: Vicar’s wife (sympathisingly): “Now that you can’t get about, and are not able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time?” Old Man: “Well, Mum, sometimes I sits and thinks; and then...
View ArticlePractical Magic
[Image: “A Hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus),” by Hans Hoffmann (German, 16th century). Painting in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; for more about the painting, see the museum’s...
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