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#(31) CHEZ PANISSE SECOND BIRTHDAY:
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses.* Not long, but wonderful while they last, and wonderful too in memory, where we may visit from time to time and remember the wine, and the friends and loved ones, and the joys that were ours. How many happy hours have faded into memory? How many tables decorated with roses? How many glasses have been raised to friends and lovers, both here and here no more? Why does time flow only one way? * Ernest Dowson, Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (from Horace, "Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes."), 1896. |