December 2011
3 posts
“I was perhaps twenty-three when I first ate almost enough caviar—not to mention any caviar at all that I can now remember. It was one of the best, brightest days of my whole life with my parents, and lunching in the quiet back room at the Café de la Paix was only one part of the luminous whole. My mother ate fresh foie gras, sternly forbidden to her liver, but she loved the cathedral at...
“In the beginning was the Word; so it states on the first page of one of the most important books known to us. What is meant in that book is that the Word of God is the source of all creation. But surely the same could be said, figuratively speaking, of every human action? And indeed, words can be said to be the very source of our being, and in fact the very substance of the cosmic life-form...
The best things of 2011
I used to make a list of the best and worst movies of the year every December for my old employer, and as the season gets chilly and Phil Spector plays on my stereo, and as I contemplate a year spent not being a full-time journalist/critic, I feel that old urge again. Let us then, discuss, my favourite things and experiences of 2011, and let’s not limit them to movies. This is, after all,...