A pair days in the past, my spouse and I obtained a hankering for shortbread. We then proceeded to eat too many shortbread cookies. They have been scrumptious. The will was sated . . . most likely for a great lengthy whereas. Not solely did I spend the remainder of my afternoon feeling slight queasy,…
Playing video video games, road-tripping throughout America, binge-listening to podcasts, chatting with artificial intelligence: these are a couple of of our modern pleasures not simply unknown to, however unimaginin a position by, humanity within the Middle Ages. But medieval people had been, in spite of everything, people, and as Terence put it greater than a…
174 years after his demise, Honoré de Balzac stays an excessively modern-sounding wag. Have been he alive at the moment, he’d little question be pounding out his provocative observations in a coffice, a café whose free wifi, lenient employees, and abundant electrical outlets make it a magazineweb for writers. One has a hunch Starbucks wouldn’t…