Daily Office: Thursday
Morning
¶ Tower of Eiffel: Now, here’s something I didn’t know: Gustave Eiffel worked on the construction of the Statue of Liberty, thus, according to Edward Berenson’s Op-Ed piece in today’s Times, “allowing him to test certain techniques he would use for his great tower in 1889.
Noon
¶ Attention! Yikes! “Google told to hand over millions of YouTube user details to Viacom in $1 billion case.” From the Telegraph.
Night
¶ Oops! When everyone but you is looking at your screen. Because you’ve already left for the holiday weekend.
Oremus…
Morning, cont’d
§ Eiffel. You know me: always desperate for clues that I am really living in Paris.
In other news, Patricia Cohen reports that the liberal professoriat, finally beginning to retire, is being replaced by more moderate academics. (Except that “liberal” wouldn’t be my word.) This is very good news, because it spells an end to the dialectic of ideologies that has all but choked American intellectual life to death in the past forty years.
Noon, cont’d
§ Attention! This is yet another reason why we must vote to turn back the tide of a Federal judiciary that regards corporate property as the most sacred kind of property.
Night, cont’d
§ Oops. There’s really nothing going on out there this evening. I’ve received exactly one piece of email all day (thanks, Tony!)
The current plan is that Kathleen will accompany me to see Ne le dis à personne tomorrow morning; it’s showing near Bloomingdale’s. Great cast, including Jean Rochefort and Kristin Scott Thomas. It’s my theory that Kathleen read the novel that the film is based on, Harlan Coben’s Ne le dis à personne. I gave it a try, but it was unreadable pulp. I mean, if Kathleen didn’t read it, how did the book get into the house?