Maybe I can't keep down my pretzels, but I can do this. It beats making a percolating sound as the phlegm wells up in my sleeping throat.
Finally, Versailles makes an appearance. Versailles is the reason I pronounce Marseilles wrong. The Tarot of Marseilles is one of my least favourite decks. Unlike, say, the temptation of the "Baroque Bohemian Cats."(Oh, they changed the borders. Never mind. I like my baroque extra-baroquey.)
And - oops - I like my womit extra-womity. Geez, how many pretzels did I eat?
To Mrs. M. Crouch, 5 Mylnebect Ct., Windermere, Cumbria.
Postmarked 25 April 1991.
"Cheers from Paris. We are both happily exhausted - enjoying real coffee as we write. We had a glorious trip on the Seine yesterday.
"Love, Sheila & Josh XX" (Josh used different ink and everything)
Five facts about/from the Baroque movement and/or the Palace at Versailles:
- one taught me the term "enfilade," which will be useful next time I'm living in a shotgun shack, teaching "Masque of the Red Death"
- its name comes from a Portuguese phrase for "irregular pearl"
- in the classic world, there are four forms of poetry, four times of day, and four abductions
- it's the opposite of the Renaissance
- the walls of our apartment are bare in comparison
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