¶ Matins: In “Waterloo,” David Frum assesses what the Republican Party really lost in Congress this week, and he sounds a lot like Frank Rich in the process.

¶ Lauds: We just wish they’d give it a name: “New York’s Museum of Modern Art said today it is adding the “@” symbol to its permanent art collection.” (Speakeasy)

¶ Prime: At Abnormal Returns, a note on “the proper time frame to judge the benefits of international diversification” — or of any investing strategy.

¶ Tierce: Sturgeon endangerment update: no joy. (Short Sharp Science)

¶ Sext: Charlie Brooker laments the heartbreak of newspaper abuse. (Guardian)

¶ Nones: Psychiatrist Barbara Schildkrout is not annoyed when her patients take cell calls; on the contrary, she’s attentive to the depths that these interruptions can reveal. (NYT)

¶ Vespers: A study in refraction: Martin Schneider, of Emdashes, writes up a talk given by James Wood on David Foster Wallace. (In our very neighborhood; we ought to have gone!) All the more interesting, in that Mr Wood took Mr Schneider’s post-talk question.

¶ Compline: Jerry Sime’s 1937 photograph, now retailed by Getty under the title “Toffs and Toughs,” shows five boys, two of them top-hatted Harrovians, standing outside Lord’s Cricket Ground; it has become the cliché of class division in England, then and now. Ian Jack deconstructs. (Intelligent Life; thanks to George Snyder)

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