May 2010
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“What happiness (I thought) if we were married, and were going away anywhere to...”
– Dickens, David Copperfield
May 1st
April 2010
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“Poor Traddles! In a tight sky-blue suit that made his arms and legs like German...”
– Dickens, David Copperfield
Apr 30th
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ListenCharalambides - “Tea” Our Bed Is...
Apr 28th
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“She brought with her two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials on...”
– Dickens, David Copperfield
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ListenThe Fiery Furnaces - “I Lost My Dog”...
Apr 21st
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Vocabulary: Dare to be Anaractic edition
geognostic: having to do with the constituent parts of the earth (air, crust, etc) cantatrice: a professional female singer (clearly, but an uncommon word) dysgenic: having a negative effect on the offspring - opposite of eugenic historiographer: an official historian of an institution, order, or society crenated: having a notched or rounded saw-tooth pattern at the edge plangent: resounding...
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Another very long article.
Apr 18th
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ListenCul de Sac - “Dust of Butterflies”...
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“He has danced in every palace of every capital, played in every club. He has...”
– Max Beerbohm, of (I think) King Edward VII
Apr 13th
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Apr 9th
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“What audacious criminal, what mystifier, what maniac collector, what insane...”
– L’Illustration upon the theft of the Mona Lisa
Apr 9th
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The theft of the Mona Lisa →
…One passerby noticed a man on the sidewalk carrying a package wrapped in white cloth. The witness recalled noticing the man throw a shiny metal object into the ditch along the edge of the street. The passerby glanced at it—it was a doorknob. If anyone else noticed during the rest of the day that there were four bare hooks where the Mona Lisa usually hung, they kept it to themselves....
Apr 9th
“My great idea is that one must forgive the pope. To begin with, he needs it more...”
– Camus, The Fall
Apr 8th
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ListenMorton Lauridsen - “O Magnum...
Apr 8th
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WatchWatch
Dean Kamen is unstoppable
Apr 7th
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“Scarcely knowing where he was, or what he was about, I am sorry to say, that...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
Apr 2nd
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ListenFor Stars - “Calm Down, Baby” It Falls...
Apr 2nd
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