a million years ago i ended up at a halloween party at his apartment where he had a giant print of nixon’s resignation letter as wall decor… incredibly chic and i have thought about it so often since then
TIL that both “consider” and “desire” reflect a Roman obsession with stars, seen in their incorporation of the Latin sidereus or starry. “considerare” (look closely) literally means “to observe the stars” while “desiderare” (long for) likely means “await what the stars deliver”
I read Spanish well enough to read el Quijote. In three years I may read French well enough for La Recherche. With age, mental decline and alcohol they will all degenerate, and I will die in a nursing home unable to communicate either with my Hispanophone nor my Francophone wife.