Even Though It's Tuesday

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… Megan McArdle manufactures a Monday Meme: go to your Amazon orders page, and see what the very first thing you ordered from Amazon was.

Well, there it is, order placed November 18, 1995, shipped on the 29th: The Great Book of French Impressionism. (Amazon's online store had opened in July 1995.)

Why? Pun Son and Daughter were in the "Odyssey of the Mind" program at St. Mary's Academy in Dover NH; their team's project for the year was "Great Impressions":

For this problem the team will select a drawing or painting by a French Impressionist artist and write a poem relating to it. The team will also select a poem by a famous author, create an original drawing or painting that relates to the poem, and present the poem and work of art.
I even remember the painting they picked, "At the Cirque Fernando: The Ringmaster" by Henri "No Time" Toulouse-Lautrec:

[The Ringmaster]

Even though I was just along for the ride, I roughly centupled my previous knowledge of Impressionism, easy to do when "previous knowledge" was "something about water lilies".

I'm still a little weak on the difference between Monet and Manet, and tend to prefer Mamet.


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