Monday Ourobori

Almost an Ouroboros?

"Handout images showing the front and side views of a gold cup decorated with the heads of two women. An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by an English scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch close to a million dollars at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed." —AFP

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Dzyds Becky and Mike report from Chicago: "Yesterday, [we] spotted an ouroboros necklace on a young man on the red line. unfortunately, we were too shy to ask for a picture. actually, it was more like a choker."

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The NYT reviews American Eve, by the one and only Paula Uruburu.

Ouroboric mail-bag

Dzyd Sarah: "I have just finished AMERICAN EVE, a book about Evelyn Nesbit and the Stanford White murder, that Riverhead is publishing next month. The author is...Paula Uruburu! Not only a palindrome but positively circular!"

(I believe the name "Uruburu" is used in Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own...I always assumed it was made-up!)