Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ethnic rugs

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Coming into Rome from the south, trains often used to have to wait a little outside the station for an available platform. The view from the windows on the right side of the train (looking towards Termini) was enlivened by … Continue reading →

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The minute and the immense

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Charles Lambert

There’s an expression for someone who has to travel a long way to discover something he could have found more easily on his doorstep. Whatever that expression is, it could certainly be applied to me as far as the work … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters – a second review

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Another review of Little Monsters, this time by literary blogger dovegreyreader. She asks some interesting questions about the construction of novels with more than one time thread in the narrative. If I hadn’t been awake for just under 30 hours … Continue reading →

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Smalltown baroque

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This wonderfully bold decoration comes from the Mission San Xavier del Bac, just outside Tucson, rising from a patch of desert as though it had once expected a community to form around it, as I imagine it did, although what … Continue reading →

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