We really are scraping the barrel today. Thanks to the American Embassy, today's big read was a US calendar, this month's pin-up being Brice Canyon, which I failed to reach during my trip last year to Las Vegas. Almost as much snow at the Grand Canyon, though. I've also been sticking dates into my new Debrett's diary (remaindered), so it's on topic: proper books to follow (although a few chapters on the Ottoman Empire could be counted, I won't).To the left you might also make out a print of Sir James Mackintosh, patron saint of the never-finished, and a warning to all who gobble chicken bones (one finished him off), to the right a map of the 2008 Tour de France, and en haute, a map of libraries in Paris, and a photocopy of the title page of Cotton's Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes, natch. You might also spot the Chevalier d'Eon popping out, and the Getty lurking around.
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