duchess is making us dinner this evening. our meal will be the first and last of this year's fall series, a nostalgic paean to the almost weekly dinners we shared over most of last september, october and november -- although the only thursday of that run was thanksgiving (duchess' first as hostess at that), the remainder of our meals together we shared on tuesdays.
tuesday evening was, of course, taken by the tao lin reading and then visits to ground kontrol and biwa with the author. i still haven't read richard yates, but i can tell you without doubt (doubting though that you'll take me at my word for my breach of professionalism) that tao lin is for real. wherefore my certainty? well, he's working on a long review of one of my favorite books from the japanese literary canon. enough said. the proof is in the pudding. (and the pudding, kids, is just the un-filed gobbledegook of my selfish grey matter.) biwa has a cocktail named after a kenzaburo oe book, but what would really shine on their menu is an almost transparent blue. i shouldn't review a book of tao's anyway, because we're essentially related now after he slept on my couch and i didn't hide the leopard print slanket on the side chair. is it still starfucking if you don't fuck?
that's a question for dinner. although we're never without topics for conversation, a lady does like to be prepared, and i've already today forgotten the purse. it's a shame that the pleasant weather won't give over to cold and rain just for tonight (and only until i have to leave on my crosstown trip home) so that we could reminisce properly over the soothing crackle of a duraflame in the fireplace. a girl can hope, i suppose, but as louisa may alcott put it: "boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." hopefully i'll get the chance to play both parts tonight. i'm practiced, and duchess has directed the best.
she's also good with the silver and a hammer, and i'm getting that necklace back. rapture! i'll be needing to pull quite a few chers if i want to keep in all my characters.
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