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I Cannot Stop Seeing in the New Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns a Kabbalistic Matrix Executed by the Designers of a Turkish Hotel
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Splendid pyjamas, Monsieur Saint-Saëns!
Splendid pyjamas, Monsieur Saint-Saëns! Might you spare us the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22? At least in the performance of Aldo Ciccolini
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris
Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December!
Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December! A spectacle of great beauty, but I warn you at once: to get inside, you must arrive at least 2 hours ahead, as the whole
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And Cordelia will be played by Nastya Ivleeva?
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At Least We Have Football Fans to Thank for the Reminder That Europe Is Still Christian
NB! · The East · Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
I dream of a hat like the one worn by Ivan Palaiologos in the fresco in the Medici Palace
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Sergei Zhigunov is one of the first to come to mind when you ask which of our contemporaries ought to have lived in the nineteenth century
Faith · Art · Observations
A counting rhyme about the apostles and a miscount over Simon Peter
As a child I had a counting-out rhyme for memorising the apostles, but something in it troubled me: however I recited it, the count never came out right, and I kept ending up with 13 men. In time I even resigned myself to this, supposing that the odd man
Books · Observations
Seneca in “Moral Letters to Lucilius” on reading many books and peace of mind
"You do not wander, you do not trouble yourself with change of place. Such restlessness is the sign of a sick soul. I think the first proof of a tranquil mind is the ability to live settled and to remain with oneself. But consider: is not the reading of
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Not an advert for Barbour, but Caspar David Friedrich, no less
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Two masked men beside a stone chimera in a photo by the Paris police prefecture
On guard. The most brilliant part is that this is a photograph from the Paris Prefecture of Police.