Walking in the Parc Monceau:
Guy de Maupassant, Like Death, trans. Richard Howard (New York: New York Review Books, 2017).
Yes, an artificial and charming place. Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, the park’s designer:
The true art is to know how to keep the visitors there, through a variety of objects, otherwise they will go to the real countryside to find what should be found in this garden; the image of liberty.The marble boy must be a reproduction of Boy with Thorn.
Elaine and I picked up two copies of this novel last summer. It’s yet another work we’d probably never have discovered without New York Review Books. More passages soon.
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I used to revere Penguin books. Now, I revere the New York Review line for surfacing books I've not heard of.
By the way, HOW do you format those extended passages? I'd like to do the same thing.
I think I could probably live on NYRB books. They meet all recommended daily allowances.
I type in Pages (the Mac app) with a narrow text area, take a screenshot, and crop it, leaving just a pixel or two on each side. Then I make a blank image file (in Acorn or Seashore) with added pixels on all sides and drop the screenshot in.
You can imagine the fun when I realize I’ve made a typo. But I like the idea of fiction and poetry looking different on the screen.
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