On a stack of bedside
reading, likely to be
acknowledged sometime
here, I laid a wish-
bone I had promised a
man to keep for him,
in a vessel now obso-
lete in this house, a
shining ashtray from
dinners drawn from an
urban cocotte I loved.
Ian McEwan
Sweet Tooth
Jonathan Cape, 2012©
Peter J. Conradi
A Very English Hero
The Making of
Frank Thompson
Bloomsbury, 2012©
Baccarat photo, Laurent
There is a WWII brass ashtray here at the apartment, a relic from the place's former owner. It's never used, but I don't exactly want to part with it. Yours is very smart, I must say.
ReplyDeleteA commendable relic and a binding provenance! I collected (why?) a WWI Dunhill trench lighter; I sense it is still around, somewhere. Kind of you to admire my glass, DJS; it might work nicely for a ticket stub from the Met, come to think of it ..
DeleteThat's what Cendrillon was named after...
ReplyDeleteShe's our french "cinderella".
Actually, I come to wonder then what cinderella stands for. Could it be an ancient word? something like: cinder = ash ...?
Possibly in changing climate conditions, we'll have cause, GW, to read your research with more than etymological interest. Or maybe not. :) But I suppose we will not give up on Rossini. Thank you for the suggestion.
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