Hasta La Ideas

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pI need an agent to deal with my agent. This was the thought. Bill was to be the buffer: Jonathan is a pathological liar, I am a pathological truthteller, and Bill was to be the man-in-the-middle, the go-between, the Janusmdash;something intermediary, anyhoo. That’s what middlemen are for. One day Bill resigned./p

pOn a market stall I happened to see, oh how lovely! a SARS mask within a plastic envelope. You needed protection yourself, Bill; you needed your very own personal plastic envelope. And I didn’t know. And more to the purpose, because life must go on, here was a chance to practice my Japanese! The label included both English text and an enchanting title for the object incorporating both hiragana and katakana: #12424;yo #12371;ko #12399;ha #12510;ma #12473;su #12463; ku. I didn’t know that masuku was Japanese for mask, Bill, did you?/p

pemAbout the author: Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai. She lives in Berlin and blogs at a href=”paperpools.blogspot.com”paperpools.blogspot.com/a. She is no longer represented by Bill Clegg of WME Entertainment./em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/significant_objects_sars_mask_helen_dewitt_story__16325.asp”(more…)/a
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