such a caress

 and finally the morning star alone moved through his innermost being with the slowness of the universe and penetrated it.  Such a caress the singer had never experienced before.  My Year  203

yesterday Matei Varga playing Chopin and Brahms  at Chatter 

hardback copy of My Year arrived.  Glad I bought it.  Yes, larger print, easier on the eyes but more than that the gone world of book culture it conveys.  Printed in 1998 (our S American year), Farrar, Straus, Giroux.  Great blurbs from German literary sources.  The old world.  Aeons from the guidance we get daily on X.  Remember when I wrote to the PSC library begging them to continue putting plastic covers on new books with the dust jackets because the jackets themselves conveyed so much to the reader both in information, context and cultural pleasure.