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I’m finding Anthony Powell slow going. He does not spoon-feed his readers. Towards the end of A Question of Upbringing Jenkins witnesses a meeting between Sillery and Buster. “Whatever they had found in common was satisfactory to Buster, too, since he laughed and talked with Sillery as if he had known him for years.”

Jenkins speculates on the cause of this sudden blossoming of friendship but it is only later that he notices but does not interpret the reason as Sillery and Buster say goodbye. “ When he took Buster’s hand he put his own left hand over their combined grip, as if to seal it.”

Since I relaxed the spam filter there have been two comments which seem off-message. The first is commenting on the Riverside Studios post and the second Dürer.  In the interests of transparency, here they are.

1. Poly’s percentage of Black students did not go down after that year, but North High developed a somewhat higher percentage of African-American students than any other high school in the Riverside Unified School District. North High seemed to be serving the Black neighborhood that was sometimes called the “East Side” of Riverside. Through the last 50 years, Poly’s percentage of Blacks has tended to hover at about seven percent (plus or minus 2 percent), similar to the percentage of Black residents in the entire City of Riverside.

2. Con la firma di Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528). Arriva a Palazzo Reale dal 21 febbraio 2018, in una magnifica e rappresentativa selezione di opere di Dürer e di alcuni dei suoi più importanti contemporanei tedeschi e italiani, la mostra “Dürer e il Rinascimento tra Germania e Italia”, circa 130 capolavori dell’acmè del Rinascimento tedesco nel suo momento di massima apertura verso l’Europa, sia al Sud (soprattutto Italia settentrionale) sia al Nord (Paesi Bassi). L’artista di Norimberga quindi, ma anche l’affascinante quadro di rapporti artistici tra nord e sud Europa tra la fine del Quattro e l’inizio del Cinquecento, il dibattito religioso e spirituale come substrato culturale delle opere di Dürer, il suo rapporto con la committenza attraverso l’analisi della ritrattistica, dei soggetti mitologici, delle pale d’altare, la sua visione della natura e dell’arte tra Classicismo e Anticlassicismo, la sua figura di uomo e le sue ambizioni d’artista: il tutto raccontato in una mostra che per la prima volta porterà a Milano a Palazzo Reale fino al 24 giugno 2018 capolavori del maestro tedesco e del suo tempo.

Meanwhile the BBC has produced a map showing the locations of London properties owned by offshore entities. There is one in my street. Barons Court has come up in the world since I first lived here in 1976.