One more thing



And one more thing:

Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum

You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.

(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).




Thursday, May 2, 2013

Happy Ending

Bob Timberg, an old colleague, inquires how the Amtrak experience ended yesterday.

Answer: Quite nicely, thank you. New locomotive attached in Philadelphia, after which Train # 86 hurtled to New York at breakneck speed, arriving only 90 minutes late. Time enough to get to Keen's where Bruce Michel, my friend since childhood, bought me lunch. 

Cheers, all.

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