Merci, Paris

Yesterday, we headed out to find a shop I’d read about at various blogs, Merci — an interesting enterprise which sells designer goods from a variety of sources at discounted prices and donates some/most/all??? of…

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little charms in Paris

So here’s the first of the Paris windows I promised you — although I appreciate the monumental and the iconic here, it’s as often the more everyday, smaller pleasures that delight me. The art that…

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EuroStar!

These are shots from St. Pancreas train station in London — in my admittedly limited experience, this is my favourite train station by far — it’s really a beautiful space and it’s clean and well-serviced…

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paris planning

Yesterday afternoon, I took a break from my essay-writing to attend a colloquium given by some of my colleagues in the English and the Fine Arts departments on William Blake and print culture. After a…

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Kellerman’s Bones, Flynn’s Knife, and Wiseman’s Crackpot

I wonder if I’m doomed to keep apologizing for cursory posts here — I do hope that, once I’ve got these two conferences behind me, I’ll be able to be a bit more expansive here,…

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