Lehman

I am reading a very good book

The Lehman Trilogy

by Stefano Massini

an Italian who writes about

Bavarian Jewish family

living in Alabama

trading cotton in 1850

who grow the business

into one of the largest banks in the world

when it fails in 2008.

From trading cotton to 

trading money

somewhere they got lost.

It wasn't 

too big

to fail.

The book is written 

as an epic poem

like the Iliad or

the Odyssey.

Last year

Claire-Adele and I went to 

the Museum of Modern Art

and saw the Robert Lehman Collection

with its own wing

and magnificent paintings 

by masters

modern and ancient.

Robert Lehman died

the year I was born.

It is one of the most interesting books 

I've started to read.

I want to read more

but instead I am here

attending to my blog.

Good night.