"It's good to see you looking so strong, Mr. Biden." What I said to him in 1988.

That was in AMTRAK Wilmington, DE, a while after the aneurysm. It was good to see him looking strong in 1988.
Sanders in his selfish vanity gave the 2016 election to Trump. Now I say it again, after Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi yesterday: "IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU LOOKING SO STRONG, MR BIDEN."

Something sick about clicking on Mississippi Election Results 3 times?

Well, there was this fellow, never a Democrat, who kept on and on out of vanity and gave an election to Trump. Does he not realize that if California had voted two weeks later the results would have been more like Idaho if not more like Michigan 2020? Let me see what happens when I click again on Mississippi Election Results.

A man I know saw a Frank Furness mantel a Freight Elevator of the Phila Architectural Salvage Building

He paid the asking price, $650 or $700, took it down in the elevator to the main floor, and hoisted it on his shoulder and walked to his car. The sides stayed attached. The mantel is very like one of the best in the Physick House in Cape May, pretty plainly by Daniel Pabst. (I did not see a good picture just now.) I admire anyone who sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and acts then.

This is a simple one but with some of the same features. The Physick one is better.

Sometimes for the very old, a surgery that you absolutely have to have, if you are going to live

in any sort of acceptable condition for any length of time--sometimes that surgery so devastatingly debilitates an old person that all stamina evaporates. There comes a point when you decide the surgery is probably working and you wish you were robust enough to welcome it and confident enough to figure out how to regain some strength so you can live to enjoy it. Sometimes. 

Robert Shore, artist for the Cover of the 2006 Norton Critical Edition of THE CONFIDENCE-MAN

Robert Shore did a suite of painting for an abortive edition of the book in the early 1970s. I did the Introduction, and later salvaged it (much revised) as "The Confidence Man's Masquerade" in the 2006 edition.  Shore was able to go to the Norton offices in 2006 to negotiate. He had to be reminded of the illustrations--understandably! In packing now I find things I have no recollection of! Shore died in 2014 at 90.

Gretchko, others, is this the Gansevoort NY house?

Stray cat