The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.