The days are noticeably longer. I need Mardi Gras presents, and it is a whole day’s trip to go and get them. I have ordered them by letter, to an old fashioned address:
Hové Parfumeur
824 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
Here is a fascinating book about Edgard Dégas, Kate Chopin, and George Washington Cable, whose lives were intertwined in nineteenth century New Orleans.
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coldhearted scientist وداد 
It would be worth ordering by letter just to order from such a nineteenth-century address (or what sounds like a 19c. address).
I read the Grandissemes (sp) and The Awakening in grad school. I wrote a paper about The Awakening that my prof totally disagreed with, but he gave me an A anyway. In his eyes it was her art that made her commit suicide, her superior sensitivity. I think it was more that she had fallen into a trap from which she felt she could not escape except by drowning herself. What do you think?
So Degas visited New Orleans. Fascinating!
Undine – my sentiments exactly. I think the business is 19th century but the building is 18th. It’s fun to go in person, too.
Hattie – Wow, not that many people outside of here have read Cable! Awakening – yes, I agree, she felt trapped. Degas in N.O. – yes, although not for long. I used to live across from his house on Esplanade.