Dear Twin, Sorry to piggyback right on your last blog post, but after you disparaged my ability to finish the book I wanted to let you know when I finished as soon as it happened. And I just read the… more →
Reading with my Twinwrote 1 day ago: “Everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” William Blake An update on the w … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Funny how just when you think your brain might implode from sheer impotency, you finally think of so … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Between the word “public” and the word “intellectual” there falls, or ought … more →
wrote 6 days ago: A Great historian, as he [Henry Fielding] insisted on calling himself… glories in his copious … more →
wrote 6 days ago: [A] telescope might have swept the parishes of Tipton and Freshitt… without witnessing any int … more →
wrote 1 week ago: A novel idea? … more →
wrote 1 week ago: 1910 The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen (and their brother Tibby) are half-German intellectual … more →
wrote 1 week ago: 1958 Like Waugh and Greene, in The Bell Iris Murdoch takes up the problem of faith – once agai … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Following on from his unprecedented run of success in accurately predicting what this nation needs, … more →
wrote 1 week ago: On the whole, I would rather scratch out my own eyes than ever agree with anything that emanates fro … more →
wrote 1 week ago: $3000 colt now worth $1 million – Shawn McAvinue: A sensitive Middlemarch colt who sold for $3 … more →
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wrote 2 weeks ago: When I was teaching first-year English, one of my students scrawled on the bottom of his quiz: “The … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Getting over a bad literary experience can take several years. In my own case it was during those te … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Welcome to the latest incarnation of my plan to never sleep more than five hours a night – it’ … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: I haven’t really participated in the monthly meme’s being held by the Classics Club befo … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Middlemarch stuns you. Not right away, mind, and not all at once – if anything, it starts out … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: May Day, International Workers’ Day, Beltane, Walpurgis Night, May Queens, Morris Dancing, May … more →