The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, by George de la Tour, c. 1635. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Vladimir Nabokov referred to Thomas Mann once as a “quack” and to Ezra Pound as “that total fake.”
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLapham’s
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