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April 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 4 — April 2010April 1st, 2010 In our cover essay, A regrettable decision, Terry Ross tells of a friend who gave away most of his carefully collected library and wishes he hadn’t. In Foundation for a bitter life, Greg Roberts deplores the sappy television commercials of the Foundation for a Better Life. Thong underwear devotee Beren deMotier describes the most embarrassing moment of her life in A cautionary tale. In Odd numbers, John Daniel recalls his attempt to learn calculus and his subsequent resolution to not worry about it. Elizabeth Fournier extols the quality and variety of canned food in Food + metal = bliss. Ed Goldberg discusses slang and other characteristics of language in Are you talkin’ to me? In Cattery, Toby Tompkins tells how he left town with one old, sick cat and came back with two young, energetic ones. Dan Peterson remembers how complicated sex was in the Fifties in Hush-hush. Our Honorary Black Lambs column features three new inductees: poet William Wordsworth, novelist Kingsley Amis, and poet/novelist Robert Penn Warren. Our Black Lamb Recipe is for Loin of Lamb, Béarnaise. In Objects & objects, advice columnist Millicent Marshall shares her thoughts on collecting things. And Professor Avram Khan gives us another challenging Black Lamb Word Puzzle.
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