dagli amici, washing clothes, having walked the dog. Cute how he lets me know he's had enough and wants to go back: We're a good team and we have a good time on our walks. So much having your own computer teaches you about how to use some one else's computer decently and circumspectly. 'Anatole' is my decent social self, the Man who wears the Mask. Or should I say, a man who wears a mask. You might have met me at the Ridottensaal. Or someone just like me.

I've read the 'G(a)linda Goes to College' episode of 'Wicked' three or four times now. It is evidently written under the spell of the movie Glinda. I am completely captivated by the feudal gradations of class and privilege in old Shiz, town and gown, including an underclass, Amas, who actually run things. The Ozness of it. I especially like the way Gillikinese ladies "eschew" subdued dress; those that can afford it even wearing jewelery when travelling. Exactly the daffy, opulent tone of the book and the movie. Like the Gilded-Age Newport, Rhode Island of Auchincloss's 'The Money', sort of.