by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
There’s a French expression « se remettre en question. » It’s tricky to translate literally, but if you did, it would come out like this: to re-put yourself in question. Which does not help a lot! On an on-line forum, a French speaker offered this...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
We had a famous Wordsworth professor who would say, “My glance fell upon such and such in a Wordsworth poem,” as his way of opening a lecture. I would like to borrow his words to say that this morning my glance fell upon a book on my shelf called, How to Live or...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’d like to continue the story of the cemetery at Montparnasse. I returned the next day with my intrepid Irish friend, who could not believe a puff a wind had closed down the cemetery the day before. Here’s a link to that sad tale. pilgrimage This time, the...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
This post is the very first one ever published. We launched on Bloomsday in 2020 on June 16th. And since this Friday is Bloomsday 2023, I thought it would be fun to visit our earliest inspiration. It seemed an auspicious day, with everybody the world over out reading...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jun 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
cemetery in Paris, anyone? Many people think, oh, Père Lachaise, with its 70,000 tombs, many of which contain notable figures such as Chopin and the Doors’, Jim Morrison, to name a very few. The name translates to Father Chair, or Father François d’ Aix de...