Daily Dose

From Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris

NOTHING

"It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe. I didn't care where Hemingway drank or Alice B. Toklas had he mustache trimmed. What I found appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire."

From See You Again Yesterday

A Caricature

A Clerihew of Long Widowhood

ALICE B. TOKLAS

Alice B. Toklas
Found that she smoked less
When left to repine
Without Gertrude Stein.

Daily Dose

From The Grave of Alice B. Toklas and Other Reports From the Past, by Otto Friedrich

TEACHERS

"High-school teachers are among the most important influences on one's life, not just intellectually but psychologically as well. The pity is that so many of them are so rotten -- so incompetent and so indifferent. But in any average school there are usually a few teachers who can somehow make any subject fascinating. In Concord High School, I had two."

From Reunion in Concord