Excerpt

The second new feature will be a quote of the day, stolen from Terry Teachout's daily "Almanac" entry over at About Last Night.  It will be a quote or an excerpt from a book or a blog or an article that makes me think, or laugh, or cry.  Actually I don't cry, but you know what I mean.  Like Terry, I'll often try to take it from something I'm currently reading or have read recently.  I'm almost done with a marvelous book, Jane Gardam's Old Filth, so that's a good place to start:

"They live together, Eddie dear.  They 'co-habit.'  They have 'co-habited' in Wandsworth for six years."
"In Wandsworth! They're not doing well then?"
"Wandsworth, dear Eddie, is now the creme-de-la of the Euro-chics."
"Rubbish. It's where all the taxi-drivers live."
"Not now. It's full of rich thirty-year olds who owe thousands on their credit cards and go to Tuscany for their holidays but have never heard of Raphael."
"They sound particularly unattractive."
"Yes, they are. But they seem to have a very good time."