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the main point the main point observations on culture and politics news photos missives from friends wednesday april 4 2018 farewell drue heinz farewell drue heinz grand lady of letters founding publisher of antaeus magazine and ecco press former publisher of the paris review a woman of taste she was not just the most important patron of letters in the second half of the 20th century she was the real thing also generous to artists and museums and had the good sense to listen to paul bowles when he put her on to daniel halpern the brilliant editor who had the notion in 1970 or so to found the superb magazine antaeus a friend just mentioned her venturing out to his reading last year in edinburgh when she was only 102 she made it to 103 and what a blessing she was to american literature and british too i have many memories of her from editorial meetings at paris review from lunches or funny lunches as george plimpton used to call them etc mostly to do with her extraordinary curiosity her energy and her astute and surprising this in so cultivated a person almost animal instincts here s another one years ago in paris for the salon du livres i was standing on a street corner near the institut du monde arabe with drue heinz the poet john ashbery and my paris review colleague daniel kunitz it was 7 pm on a spring night and we were at loose ends without a reservation ashbery said well i haven t lived here in thirty years but there used to be this place i wonder if it s still around and so to moissonier on rue fosses st bernard as our group hovered outside the restaurant door ashbery abashed hesitated golly we ll never get in but i used to eat here every tuesday night haven t been in thirty years just inside the door the hostess without missing a beat said good evening mr ashbery so nice to see you again will you be joining us this evening ashbery after he stopped blushing had the bavette kunitz and i had the daube drue went for the pied du cochon an enormous thing semi charred with carafes of the house red table talk was about the french novel the state of criticism the french poet pierre martory and as ever the paris based literary power couple philippe sollers and julia kristeva i wouldn t say she absorbed what others said but instead she listened with a discriminating intelligence or with just a great bull shit detector mid meal kunitz asked drue how was her pied du cochon delicious she said then having seen earlier his eyes shift to her plate she added with a fierce look and you re not getting any of it supper finished she said where should we go next i d like to say it was the jet lag after a trans atlantic flight whereas she had only come from london but quite simply the spring chickens couldn t keep up with her i was told that in the 1970s in tangiers morocco when paul bowles used to take her around to meet the writers there the storytellers the charmers it was just the same she loved writers always made time for them hated cant had boundless curiosity and had those extraordinary instincts posted by james scott linville at 3 29 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 30 2017 screams from the sun send greetings from tottenham court road spotted last evening at tottenham court road tube station london it s only a cover but a darn good one especially for a man singing behind a balaclava so this via screams from the sun whoever they are sex on fire video recorded on an iphone 6s posted by james scott linville at 10 17 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday september 22 2017 the future of bitcoin a friend asked my opinion recently about the future of bitcoin given that he is a banker and my areas of expertise are literature and film this seemed an odd request nevertheless let s consider the purpose of a currency is either as 1 a means of exchange or 2 a storehouse of wealth apropos 1 for now as far as i can tell there are not enough actors in the legitimate economic sphere using bitcoin regularly for it to be a widely accepted conventional means of exchange if in the future there are instances of currency restrictions on international exchange it could become useful but would presumably constitute flouting of some rule or another apropos 2 given that there is nothing tangible supporting the value of bitcoin not commodity nor treasury nor even a final guarantor such as taxpayers bitcoin would not seem an attractive long term storehouse of wealth whether it can in purely speculative terms be a profitable short term play is an entirely different matter other than its inability to flower how is a bitcoin different from a tulip bulb i am sure that in the 17th century dutch tulip mania there were some who safely stored their wealth in tulip bulbs recognized the developing bubble transferred their wealth into property which many in amsterdam at that time likely predicted would soon be literally under water and then got out in time this is not to knock speculation during a market rise it s just that very few ever get out in time and this is not to knock tulips they re beautiful if the dutch treasury had figured how to modulate tulip mania and let the air out of that speculative bubble things might have worked out okay and tulip bulbs would still be an alternative means of exchange in northern europe in any case given their intricacy a better comparison for bitcoin might be to native american wampum belts how might a bitcoin bubble develop here s one possible scenario china right now has a problem of too much debt and probably too much bad debt i believe they will work through that challenge okay with some pain along the way that said this week s p lowered china s credit rating it could be that a crowd of chinese investors while enduring a market shock grow less enamored of their currency and also of the dollar and the pound and see bitcoin as an alternative store of wealth that could be a mistake but who knows here s hoping for smooth sailing more about the s p downgrade here about tulip mania here about wampum belts here via the haudenosaunee confederacy chiefs council posted by james scott linville at 8 44 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday september 21 2017 stansted farm shop the new stansted farm shop near rowlands castle hampshire uk has opened and it is splendid the shop offers locally sourced produce fish beef and game the also do a mean wood fired pizza tmp loves this place stop in for lunch or a coffee and do a shop for all your specialty items the stansted farm shop website may be found here photo james linville the main point blog posted by james scott linville at 9 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 26 2017 hammers down at christie s south ken last wednesday saw the last auction at christie s south ken london s premiere middle market salesroom a venue that stood for 42 years at the center of london s art and antiques scene nic mcelhatton csk s chairman knocked down the last sales buyers sellers and dealers kindly offered the main point their observations and mcelhatton made a moving farewell speech posted by james scott linville at 7 06 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me james scott linville has contributed journalism to the financial times the paris review the spectator the wall street journal the new york times monocle esquire harpers standpoint magazine the sunday telegraph the bbc the pushcart prize anthology and the indian quarterly as well as photography to elle he has reported from the us uk chile sweden mexico morocco france croatia turkey egypt and lebanon view my complete profile followers blog archive 2018 1 april 1 farewell drue heinz 2017 6 november 1 september 2 july 1 march 1 february 1 2016 7 november 1 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