“I am still alive. That is about the most positive thing I can say about my current situation. Even this state of affairs may not endure: an obstreperous airport security official confiscated my water-purification tablets. Once, in happier times, I visited the Rodin museum in Paris. There I obser...
Also, Mad Marvin the Magician, whom I’ve booked as the entertainment, insists that he can’t work without a two-liter bottle of Strongbow cider. Perhaps by some strange alchemy he turns it into something drinkable. FRIDAY, JULY 4 I tried to coax Sophie out on a shopping trip with the offer of a ...