tired and ill
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
-JOHN DONNE, “THE BAIT”
“It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance, with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.”
-JACQUELINE KENNEDY, ON THE MONTHS WHEN JFK WAS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.”
-CHER
“God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.”
-MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, OF IMMORTALITY
AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE CHEESE COURSE
At a wedding feast in Milan in the late fifteenth century, guests were served what seemed to be a year’s worth of food: roast calves’ heads, whole suckling pigs, sausages, hams, wild boar, whole sheep, turtledoves, partridges, pheasants, quail, and chicken. And those were just the meat courses. The pièce de résistance was a peacock. After roasting it, the cooks put the head and all the feathers back on. To make the bird seem truly lifelike was considered the height of culinary genius.
“Love will draw an elephant through a keyhole.”
-SAMUEL RICHARDSON, CLARISSA
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
-JOHN DONNE, “THE BAIT”
“It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance, with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.”
-JACQUELINE KENNEDY, ON THE MONTHS WHEN JFK WAS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.”
-CHER
“God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.”
-MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, OF IMMORTALITY
AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE CHEESE COURSE
At a wedding feast in Milan in the late fifteenth century, guests were served what seemed to be a year’s worth of food: roast calves’ heads, whole suckling pigs, sausages, hams, wild boar, whole sheep, turtledoves, partridges, pheasants, quail, and chicken. And those were just the meat courses. The pièce de résistance was a peacock. After roasting it, the cooks put the head and all the feathers back on. To make the bird seem truly lifelike was considered the height of culinary genius.
“Love will draw an elephant through a keyhole.”
-SAMUEL RICHARDSON, CLARISSA