Thursday, August 28, 2008

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or·i·flamme
1. an inspiring standard or symbol.
2. the red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of St. Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.

Today I met a man in an overcoat and trousers, but without a shirt. When I asked him why he had no shirt, he told me that it would be what I was expecting. I was hardly expecting an overcoat; it was a sunny, thirty degree day. The lack of shirt seemed superfluous. Yet he insisted. "You'll remember me, now," he told me. "That's all any of us really wants."

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