starting out together on 8 October, 1904, in anticipation of a job in a Berlitz school that did not materialize, so they continued on to Trieste where Joyce wrote "The Dubliners."

   
   Detail.  Paul Signac (1863-1935). "Opus 217... Portrait of M Félix Fénéon." 1890.  New York, MOMA, Fractional Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller.

Although he accepted the work from the painter and kept it on his walls until Signac died 45 years later, Fénéon never liked his portrait and said in 1943 that it was 'the least successful work painted by Signac' [according to Julian Barnes in his review of Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines.]

E and I have joined the 24 Hour Fitness gym at the Arclight Complex, which means you can work out and go to a movie in the Cinerama Dome afterward, or vice versa, or just do your crunches looking out over the dome and at the Hollywood Sign on the hillside in the distance and all of this in a clean, well-lighted place where you are surrounded by many beautiful young people in breathtaking physical condition, glowing with sweat and determination, some of them intriguingly decorated with elaborate tattoos, and it seems like every one of them came here with a headshot and a dream.

You don't always know how Life is going to work out.