Does your husband have this disease too? Not sure we can occupy the same space at the same time without creating a singularity. But I’m willing to tempt fate.

PS — To which infinite set do you refer and what is its cardinality?

Nearly a year ago, I listened to an author interview on NPR about the Garfield assassination. I still haven’t gotten the book, though it’s a fascinating story. It’s on my very long “need to read” list. Now, if I just had the extra time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/books/destiny-of-the-republic-on-garfield-by-candice-millard-review.html

“What? That Dutch lad we found climbing down the hawser from the vessel docked over yonder? I need get the deserter back to his captain at dawn so he can be off before the tidal bore comes sluicing up the channel. What louche purpose have you with him?”

“I need him for my own ends. Here, I offer you this nephrite amulet, given me by a croupier in the city. I had means to fulfill his nefarious desideratum (what, I am not at liberty to say.) I shall create a lacuna in the captain’s memory, and he’ll not bother you. Your sinecure here is safe.”

The constable, transfixed by the beauty of the amulet, took it from her and crossed himself — a perhaps-futile apotropaic gesture in the face of the fulvous evil to which he’d condemned the young callan, Hans, still sleeping peacefully in his cell.

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-february-20-2012-ann-patchett

What toy store was pushed out on W. Gray?

I think BN’s other front in the fight against Amazon is toys. AT BN on West Gray the toy section keeps growing, crowding out the books. (And since Weingarten forced out one of our last independent toy stores – wasn’t highbrow enough for West Gray apparently – maybe we need some toys on that street.)

i hope you come home soon also.

I too have a love/hate relationship with the Brits as my family in the old country were also occupied 800 years or so.