A Movable Feast

"What a lovely afternoon and evening. Now we'd better have lunch."
"I'm very hungry," I said. "I worked at the café on a café crème."
"How did it go, Tatie?"
"I think all right. I hope so. What do we have for lunch?"
"Little radishes, and good foie de veau with mashed potatoes and an endive salad. Apple tart."
"And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them."
"Would that be honest?"
"Sure."
"Does she have Henry James too?"
"Sure."

"My," she said. "We're lucky that you found the place."
"We're always lucky," I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

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More on Trepanning:

"Feilding and other advocates believe that trepanation allows greater blood flow to the brain by altering cranial fluid dynamics, thus revitalising brain metabolism to its more youthful level, present prior to the fusion of the cranial bones.[citation needed] Recent research carried out by Feilding in collaboration with Prof. Yuri Moskalenko has provided evidence in support of this hypothesis. This is part of a larger research programme investigating how intracranial dynamics change as we age, and what can be done to increase cranial compliance to help limit some of the detrimental changes associated with aging."


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