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Within reason, of course!

He takes it off from time to time.

Half a pound?

At your service, milady

Bumbles bounce?

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, now online for your greater edification: http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu Background for us mortals: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/05/albert-einstein-archive-genius-doubts-and-loves

Says, at least, the snake that just ate a sheep...

Fret not. I do hereby solemnly swear (and affirm!) that cycling from New Haven to Stratford is one of those rare things that I did not, do not, and almost certainly never shall regret leaving undone ere 'parting this vale of tears. That is to say, quite satisfied with the choice made that particular day...

LOLOL That article on his and his family's pestiferous overachievement reminded me of when we first met. That morning he had flown back from a summer study in Europe, and was already on the phone deciding that evening not to train down to Manhattan to meet Mummy for something at Lincoln Center but rather bicycle (!) from New Haven up to Stratford, CT for an evening of Shakespeare. Meanwhile I was still dithering whether to slouch over to the tobacconist for a fresh box of Simone Arzt, or instead go straight to supper at Pepe's apizz which was just slightly inconveniently in a different direction. Note which of us is not currently a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Returning to my own hijack the Googles alas turned up no pics of George Packer's fine young ass but did find this look at him and his lit'ry-minded family... http://m.sfgate.com/magazine/article/Thicker-Than-Water-3282174.php

They usually aren't that funny.

Another fascinating portrait of Merkel. By the extraordinary journalist George Packer. Whom I can report, gratuitously, from a slightly overlapping house tenancy in New Haven long ago, had the most beautiful runner's ass when he was 21. The Quiet German The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german?intcid=mod-most-popular