Excesses of chocolate and paper
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jducoeurLunch today was at The Chocolate Bar, at Cafe Fleuri. This is an orgy of sugar: a Saturday brunch made up principally of chocolate and related flavors. Perfectly dark and gooey bread pudding; chocolate crepes (and I mean that the crepe itself is chocolate, not just the fillings); "mexican chocolate soup" (think thick cinnamon hot chocolate); and an impossible number of different cakes. I won't be able to look at sweets for a week, but it's a delightful outing once in a while.
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msmemory and I indulged our bibliomania at MacIntyre and Moore, IMO the best used bookstore anywhere. They have a lot of good sections, but they stand out in Medieval and Renaissance studies, both literature and history. Over the years, they've gone from two five-foot tall bookcases of period books to something like seven eight-footers. I tried to keep myself focused on vaguely useful stuff, so I only picked up five volumes:
Afterwards,
msmemory and I indulged our bibliomania at MacIntyre and Moore, IMO the best used bookstore anywhere. They have a lot of good sections, but they stand out in Medieval and Renaissance studies, both literature and history. Over the years, they've gone from two five-foot tall bookcases of period books to something like seven eight-footers. I tried to keep myself focused on vaguely useful stuff, so I only picked up five volumes:- The Wakefield Pageants in the Towneley Cycle, as research materials for if I ever sit down and actually write my play (which has a play-within-a-play of the worst passion play ever performed);
- At Play in the Tavern, a book about the social import of gaming in taverns, which looks to be worthwhile for the bibliography alone;
- and three volumes of The Muqaddimah, a rambling fourteenth-century Arabic book of history, philosophy and everything else, with side discourses on subjects as diverse as alchemy and linguistics.
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