At midnight last night my table was littered with notes that, unable to digest it all and frame a coherent letter, I gave up in despair and went to bed. The room has become infinitely more habitable since (after two weeks) I discovered that the light could be manipulated. I must tell you that the big coal box in my room is an object which I look at ( Read more... )

Just so you know, Marcel Marceau really did put out a record.

I'd always heard that he had -- which confused me because he was, you know, a mime -- but I finally bothered to look it up and it's a spoken word album where he talks about the history of mime in an interview.

It originally came out in 1971 and was reissued in 2000.


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