Microcosm

[qatar]

As I was just pulling a tissue out of the tissue box on my desk -- which is newly swaddled in a red silk tissue-box cosy given me by a Chinese coworker -- I started thinking about the decorations in my cube, almost all of which were gifts: the Chinese tissue-box cosy, an Egyptian painting (on papyrus) of a tree and birds, a Jordanian pointilist

Comments

[douglasperkins]

In Lake Wobegon, one does not use words like "swank".

[qatar]

True, true. Qatar is very far from Lake Wobegon, don't you think?

[foobart]

I beg to differ!

http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9802/23/index.html

...hanging out in swank restaurants among high-rolling dudes...

:)

[anonymous]

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[qatar]

lol. Quite.