TT: Half a loaf |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 1:00 am |
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Doing nothing no longer comes naturally to me, but I gave it my best shot yesterday. To be sure, I didn't spend the whole day doing nothing. I couldn't--I had a deadline to hit. I got up at seven, wrote and filed my Wall Street Journal drama column, answered my e-mail, and took note of the death of Elaine Dundy. But by noon I was through with the day's work, so I put on my clothes (yes, I write in dishabille) and strolled over to Columbus Avenue. I caught a cab and told the driver to take me to Danal, where my old friend Rick Brookhiser stood me to a champagne luncheon in honor of the completion of Rhythm Man: A Life of Louis Armstrong. "So, what are the first and last words of the book?" Rick asked. "Ah, the Jane Chord!" I replied. The Jane Chord, to which Bill Buckley introduced us years ago, is a concept originally promulgated by Hugh Kenner. The idea is that if you make a two-word sentence out of the first and last words of a book, it will tell you something revealing about the [ Full article ] |
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