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...Perry, playing faultlessly all afternoon, contributed the best individual bit of the day in the final period. Held crosseyed by three Blue forwards who had sifted through the defense with the ball, Tom made a headlong dive to deflect a hard ground shot outside the post...
...Fellow feels hurt speaking this way. Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...
...miss the exhibition. The flowers are nicely arranged; tea is gracefully poured. And really, there is a bit of beauty here and there, and all of it-at least this day-was not framed...
Longing for a bit of the rich aroma of old scholarship, yesterday we decided to browse. Forgetting things temporal in the stacks of Widener and the dust of decades, we pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...
...Centaurs, who were brutal creatures, partly human, partly equine, were invited to the wedding of Pirithous, King of the Lapiths. There was great feasting--but the animal would out, and the Centaurs became inflamed with wine and began to lay hands on the women. Ordinarily we might get a bit disturbed about this, but no, for there stands Apollo in the center and being with a god we have nothing to fear. For that matter there's nothing to fear anyway--it's all in sculpture...