I Know How Deeply Slothful I Am.

The Decisive Moment In The Defeat Of Upper Class, Capital-s, Society May Have Come When, In Newspapers All Over The Nation, What Used To Be Call The Society Page Was Replaced By The Style Section.

I Am Basically A Complainer And All The Grounds For Complaint Have Been Swept Out From Under Me.

The Reason 'closure' Is A Cliche Is That It Is Used Too Often, Too Imprecisely, And Doesn't In Any Case Reflect Reality. In Reality, Such Closure In Broken Friendships And Much Else In Life Is Rarely Achieved; Only Death Brings Closure And Then Not Always For Those Still Living.

That Wine Drinking Is More Effete Than Beer Drinking? No Question.

What, Really, Is Wanted From A Neighborhood? Convenience, Certainly, An Absence Of Major Aggravation, To Be Sure. But Perhaps Mostof All, Ideally, What Is Wanted Is A Comfortable Background, A Breathing Space Of Intermission Between The Intensities Of Private Life And The Calculations Of Public Life.