by Emil Rem | Mar 12, 2026 | Analects
Leonard Q. Ross wrote a series of short stories about Hyman Kaplan. Kaplan was a mid-thirty-year-old Eastern European, an emigrant to New York after the Second World War. During the day, Kaplan worked in a garment factory. In the evening, he attended night school to...
by Emil Rem | Mar 5, 2026 | Analects
Yay! The FIFA World Cup is coming! The FIFA World Cup is coming! Yet I still remember Qatar 2022 and one specific soccer game: the semi-final France v Morocco on Dec. 14. Morocco were the upstarts charging out of the African desert. France, the practiced Ancien...
by Emil Rem | Feb 26, 2026 | Analects
In one way or another, we’re all snobbish. My snobbery revolves around intelligence. Of all my clients, the one I admire most in that category is Garry. Garry understands concepts in a flash. He has an unerring instinct in assessing people. All this has enticed him to...
by Emil Rem | Feb 17, 2026 | Analects
My father died on 1 April 2012. Being an Ismaili Muslim, the community took charge of the entire ceremony at no cost. Discovering that my wife was Filipina, they kindly gave her a “cheat sheet” to memorise all the responses in Arabic for the funeral. What...
by Emil Rem | Feb 12, 2026 | Analects
As a veteran accountant, devoted to a lifetime of combatting errant tax returns, my sincere advice to you is NEVER spend Christmas in South Beach (SoBe to the initiated), Miami, Florida. It was all a ploy to steer The Monster, my younger son, away from the back...
