Miles and paper clips

Miles Davis, the older Miles: “How much of a pony am I?”

The context: they, whoever they were, wanted him to wear a suit with weatherstripping when he performed.

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Our fambly was in a stationery store in an sprawling apartment. One of its rooms was the store. The store was clearly on the decline. One square of a printer’s box held green paper clips, sold individually. A nearly empty display of Christmas cards was propped against a wall under a window. We looked and left before I realized that I was missing my backpack. I had to hurry back — the store was closing in an hour. I got into an elevator, already packed. A Sikh man wearing a dastār stood at the front of the car.

It was an interesting night.

Likely sources:

The pinstripes on Amna Nawaz and a guest on the PBS NewsHour last night. (I think pony has something to do with clotheshorse.)

The documentary The Booksellers (dir. D.W. Young, 2019), which we watched last night. Several scenes of apartments used for book storage. One bookstore window with a sign advertising Christmas and New Year’s cards.

Having had occasion to recall Mary Miller’s (IL-15) intolerant consternation that a Sikh was leading a prayer in the House of Representatives.

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All OCA dream posts (Pinboard)

[“Only fools and children talk about their dreams”: Dr. Edward Jeffreys (Robert Douglas), in Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1951).]