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Monday, December 05, 2005

Snow is general all over ‘thesda…

…as James Joyce would have written had he lived in suburban Washington rather than the Dublin of “The Dead.” (What he actually wrote in that story was “Snow was general all over Ireland.”) The view from UD’s Garrett Park window is glorious…. Oh for a beaker of Ann Althouse, with her posted photos of wintry days in Madison! But UD isn’t that far along technically… though, come to think of it, UD’s daughter, with her digital camera, could do the deed for her… As soon as the little one has finished reading the New York Times (class assignment on the national debt or something), she’s promised to give it a whirl…