It was given to me, in the nineteenth century,
to spend a lifetime on this earth.
Along with a few of the sorrows that are appointed unto men
I have had innumerable enjoyments;
and the world has been to me, even from childhood,
a great museum.—Lydia Davis, “Our Village,” adapted from a manuscript by Sidney Brooks (1813-1887)
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theater, natural history and conservation, the utterly mundane, and Etruscan 8-tracks