Last week I met Sanja H., briefly, in the Future Bakery. I liked her a lot, she reminded me of that certain fine urban character from Belgrade, probably extinct by now, of understated sophistication and self-deprecating humor. I hope I get to know her better.
Finished "Piccoli equivoci senza importanza" (Tabucchi), "My century" by Aleksander Wat and, skimmingly only, Richard Dawkins' "The devil's chaplain". Oh how I weep for the passing of Stephen Jay Gould and his gift of beautiful, deep, original thought.
Speaking of the dead--adieu to Francis Crick.
Saw "Bob le flambeur", "Tirez sur le pianiste", "Le cercle rouge" and "Il gattopardo". Here is the text of Boby Lapointe's hilarious song "Framboise" from Truffaut's movie.
Et bien qu'elle soit Française,
Et, malgré ses yeux de braise,
Ça ne me mettait pas à l'aise
De la savoir Antibaise,
Moi qui serais plutôt pour...
Had dinner at Asian Legend with Alison, Raymond, Marc and Richard. Wasn't too bad considering we're all almost utter strangers to each other. I'm looking toward the retreat with dread and trepidation.
Post je objavljen 31.07.2004. u 16:21 sati.