J'aime, je n'aime pas ~ I like, I don't like
I like: salad, cinnamon, cheese, pimento, marzipan, the smell of new-cut hay (why
doesn't someone with a "nose" make such a perfume), roses, peonies, lavender, champagne,
loosely held political convictions, Glenn Gould, too-cold beer, flat pillows, toast, Havana cigars,
Handel, slow walks, pears, whie peaches, cherries, colors, watches, all kinds of writing pens,
desserts, unrefined salt, realistic novels, the piano, coffee, Pollock, Twombly, all romantic music,
Sartre, Brecht, Verne, Fourier, Eisenstein, trains, Médoc wine, having change,
Bouvard and Pécuchet, walking in sandals on the lanes of southwest France, the
bend of the Adour seen from Doctor L.'s house, the Marx Brothers, the mountains at seven in the
morning leaving Salamanca, etc.
I don't like: white Pomeranians, women in slacks, geraniums, strawberries, the
harpsichord, Miró, tautologies, animated cartoons, Arthur Rubinstein, villas, the
afternoon, Satie, Bartók, Vivaldi, telephoning, children's choruses, Chopin's concertos,
Burgundian branles and Renaissance dances, the organ, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, his trumpets
and kettledrums, the politico-sexual, scenes, initiatives, fidelity, spontaneity, evenings with
people I don't know, etc.
Half a decade ago I