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...paint things in a way that forgot how they'd been done before--you couldn't do that with a nymph or an angel. Nymphs and angels aren't real, and for that reason you needed to know the precedents in order to do them. But you had to know things even better to forget them, to forget their names, their styles of presentation. And only by this means, this un-naming, could the penetration of Nature--things as they really are, the silent mysteries beyond nomenclature--really begin. This was Chardin's enterprise, and in a certain sense--particularly...
...long ago, an aggressive plaintiffs' lawyer entering a roomful of doctors could have used a bodyguard. That's how much the medical profession hated the "ambulance chasers" who were driving up their malpractice premiums. On this visit, however, Scruggs was introduced so gushingly that even he was embarrassed. "You forgot to mention," he chided the society's head, "that I rested on the seventh...
...article about memory was excellent, and I was going to write you something about it, but I forgot what it was." MARGARITA M. HORNER West Palm Beach...
...have a shirt I can borrow?" It's Scott Gomez's first year living on his own, and he forgot to pack a T shirt. He is sequestered at a hotel in northern New Jersey with his Devils teammates during the Stanley Cup finals, and even though the team is in a good mood after beating the Dallas Stars, 7-3, in Game 1 the night before, no one is helping him out. "Come on," he says to roommate Jason Arnott, "you don't have an extra shirt? You've got a better body than me. Let me wear yours...
...Thank Dorm Crew. As a first-year Matthew forgot about Valentine's Day until the last minute. Late in the day, in a panic, he ordered so many roses to be delivered that he was still paying off the debt by year's end. In fact, he says, those flowers were the reason he decided to stay and earn some money working for dorm crew...