Santa Doing the Rounds
"Ignoring Zimbabwe's acute food shortages and 8,000-percent inflation (or maybe because of them), Santa showed up in full dress in Harare, the capital. In 1881, the political cartoonist Thomas Nast first outfitted Santa in a red suit trimmed in white fur."
Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press
""He was dressed all in fur, from head to his foot," Moore wrote, "And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot." On the beach in Puri, India, this Santa was all sculptured in sand, as designed by the artist Sudarshan Patnaik."Photo: Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press
"Like most other people, I try to indulge the jolly and carefree spirit of the season and, also like many, wind up feeling as if a bulldozer has flattened me. Not infrequently I find myself thinking of the Vienna-born genius analyst Melanie Klein, who made it her business to examine the complexities of generosity and gratitude and to unravel the reasons why the act of giving is so complicated and fraught."
NewYorkTimes: What Do You Mean, Giving Me That? by Guy Debray, December 23, 2007
More seasonal readings linked on that page.
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