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...once sold his house to raise the money--30 gold coins--for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...
...read and why. Why read The Great Gatsby? To punish oneself with the fact that while wishing life to be eternally renewable, eternally correctable, one knows--in the silent rooms of one's ridiculous mansions on the sea, brooding over the drunken parties and the Ain't We Got Fun? dancers--that...
...been trying out the newest way to protect oneself: a browser-based service from McAfee.com that promises to keep any PC bug-free. Note that I said service rather than software. For $30 a year, you subscribe to McAfee.com's "Clinic," which will protect your Net-connected computer with a program that's constantly updated with the latest digital fumigants. McAfee.com's approach is an example of what's known as an Application Service Provider, a recent trendlet among Net businesses. Increasingly, software companies deliver their stuff to you exclusively online, in tiny installments that they can automatically upgrade...
...once sold his house to raise the money - 30 gold coins - for a particularly famous old tea caddy he yearned to buy. Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself...
...artist. Seeing all of these portraits together is a phenomenal opportunity to learn about dignity, humanity and intellectual curiosity as seen through the eyes of an artist. Although the artist wrote, They say -and I am very willing to believe it - that it is difficult to know oneself - but it isn't easy to paint oneself either,' his portraits do reveal himself - not just the self-portraits, but all of his work - and to miss this chance to appreciate the genius of van Gogh's personality would be a shame...