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Tonight's Pairing

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro
Quiet dignityfading lightEnglish restraint
The Pour
The Mood

A long English drive through the West Country, a butler counting his regrets in measured prose. Read in late afternoon with the curtains half-drawn and nothing urgent to do.

Margin notes

5 in 6 readers poured again.

  • “Half-drawn curtains, one glass, three chapters, gone.”
  • “The Riesling was the right kind of restrained.”
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