Tolstoy And the Purple Chair
“an always within never.
MURIEL BARBERY, The Elegance of the Hedgehog I STARTED READING THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG BY Muriel Barbery on the train ride into New York City on the day of my forty-sixth birthday. The day had started with breakfast served up alongside kisses and hugs, envelopes and homemade cards waiting to the side. There was the usual card from my son Michael with its accurately numbered candles on the cake, each drawn in with its own flame. This was a cake to be wary of: so many... candles, so much fire. There was a card from the cats, signed “from the cats” by Jack. We’ve always had cats but Jack never knows their names.
I opened the envelopes that had come in through the mail over the last few days. There was a card from my parents and one from Jack’s parents, with the yearly cash enclosed. With fifty-plus children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and daughters- and sons-in-law, Jack’s parents could go broke with birthday-card cash, but until they did, the gift was always there.MoreLess
MURIEL BARBERY, The Elegance of the Hedgehog I STARTED READING THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG BY Muriel Barbery on the train ride into New York City on the day of my forty-sixth birthday. The day had started with breakfast served up alongside kisses and hugs, envelopes and homemade cards waiting to the side. There was the usual card from my son Michael with its accurately numbered candles on the cake, each drawn in with its own flame. This was a cake to be wary of: so many... candles, so much fire. There was a card from the cats, signed “from the cats” by Jack. We’ve always had cats but Jack never knows their names.
I opened the envelopes that had come in through the mail over the last few days. There was a card from my parents and one from Jack’s parents, with the yearly cash enclosed. With fifty-plus children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and daughters- and sons-in-law, Jack’s parents could go broke with birthday-card cash, but until they did, the gift was always there.MoreLess
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