Tag: candles
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January 7, 2020
What is a good life? A few years ago, I was walking down a street in a city far from home. I happened to turn my head and look in a restaurant window just as a waiter came bearing a cake ablaze in candles to a table filled with people. The waiter set the cake…
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September 28, 2011
I’ve had the closing lines of Michael Rosen’s Sad Book (“And candles. There must be candles.”) running through my head for a few days now, ever since I went out to buy candles for a friend’s birthday cake. “And candles,” I just thought to the dawn sky. “There must be candles.” “And candles,” I muttered…