ATDTDA 721

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 04:31:34 CST 2008


here is a link to an "Angel's Field" by Lajos Kassak
but this one looks like a book cover?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/24gsts

721 9 Spittelberggasse
http://www.spittelberg.at/weihnachtsmarkt/english/markt.htm


721 10 "limitless civic passion for window-shopping"
which has been suggested to me as a counterpoint to,
almost a remedy for, excessive consumerism

721 14 "aigrette" - head-plume from an egret (and by analogy,
similar structures made of gems on sultans' turbans;
or on horses' headgear; also a decoration on some French officers' hats;
excrescences on bugs' heads;
and there is an "aigrette" class of French submarine)

but the actual egret feather is probably what this lady
is wearing (hunters depleted the egret population badly
to feed the fad)

721 39 "Your first time with a woman, if I'm not mistaken."
"I - hm? what are you - we ...didn't..."

it all depends what your definition of... (heehee)



"in men - particular men, now and then - a desire for self-surrender" -
an observance of Yashmeen



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