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Dining with Goya in the Villa of the Deaf Man

Francisco de Goya, Saturno Devorando a Uno de Sus NiƱos, 1819-1823, Museo del Prado, Madrid. I’m dining with Goya in Quinta del Sordo, a villa by the Manzanares he bought from a deaf man. He has no reason to change …

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Bright Star

The Sun Also Rises is an earnest movie but without Papa’s text it’s not quite Hemingway. Flynn steals it. By ’57 he’s not top of the bill, not Captain Blood, no swash, not much buckle, not Robin Hood, tights too …

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