It is also a deeply conservative and often funny meditation on the odd choices mankind has made in the name of progress: "The average 'lunch hour' in my part of the world now lasts 22 minutes and consists, mostly, of a pre-packed supermarket sandwich consumed at one's desk".
Theodore Ross's meditations on odd Jews (he counts himself among them), childhood pseudo-celebrity, and illegal fishing have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, the Oxford American, Saveur, and lots of other prestigious publications that few people read.
The ghost of George Balanchine made a few tantalizingly elusive appearances, most notably in a solo entrance for Mr. Angle that looked like a meditation on hauntingly odd male solos in Balanchine's "Four Temperaments" and "Square Dance".
It ends with a meditation on the famous odd, lonely self-portrait of Annibale Caracci in the darkened studio, the painter gone home, a dog peering suspiciously at the spectator, the glum self-portrait itself perched on the easel.
At first, meditation feels hard and slightly odd.
Odd Woman in the City is part meditation, part memoir, with Gornick and her city at the core – and she speaks to readers as if they're old friends.
While comparing the manuscript and published versions of "Stanzas in Meditation," Dydo came across something extremely odd.
But for most of the set, the duos were shared meditations that led gradually and via odd byways to unison melodies at the end, proof that the two musicians had been headed for the same destination all along.
There's certainly diversity in the free school model, if some odd class politics: soldiers to teach the feral underclass; meditation skills for the heavy breathers.
Charlotte Palmer-Lane's textbook-clear outfits tell you right off the bat that Mr. Dresser's comic meditation on Little League baseball is going to center on an odd couple.
