February 2011
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“Of passions strong, of hasty nature, Of graceless form and dwarfish stature; By...”
– Matthew Lewis, Preface to The Monk
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
January 2011
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“A nun did eat a lettuce without grace or signing it with the sign of the cross,...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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ListenThe Cubists - “The Orchestra Breathes”...
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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“Cornelius Gemma, lib. 2 de nat. mirac. cap. 4, related of a young maid, called...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“The more fool you,” Gerard replied, “If you continue this madness,...”
– Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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How blind to beliefs should employers be? →
Richard Dawkins: “My colleague takes the view that this [young-earth creationist] is entitled to a job as a professor of astronomy, because he keeps his private beliefs to himself while at work. I take the opposite view. I would object to employing him, on the grounds that his research papers, and his lectures to students, are filled with what he personally believes to be falsehoods. He is a...
Jan 26th
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ListenThe Dismemberment Plan - “Crush” Split...
Jan 26th
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Revolt of the Elites →
“The mark of superior people, in Ortega’s sense, is that they consider themselves inferior to what they may become. Self-improvement, for all that it smacks of the self-help shelf at Barnes & Noble, is also, in this way, the rallying cry of the only kind of elite worth having. … The resentful right, under the banner — hoisted alike by Beck, Huckabee, and Palin — of common sense,...
Jan 25th
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“Here were grounds for abundance of savage elation. But there was also the...”
– Sheridan Le Fanu, Squire Toby’s Will
Jan 25th
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final space shuttle mission launches June 20 →
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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Vocabulary: I Am Errour Edition
metonymy: figure of speech in which a concept is replaced by a related object (“the crown”) synteresis: innate moral knowledge. In Christianity, the part of the soul connected with god ecpyrosis: the periodic destruction and recreation of the universe (ancient Greek belief) pother: a commotion, heated discussion, or suffocating cloud (as of dust or ash) defalcation: misappropriation of...
Jan 17th
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“I have trouted, when the brook was so low, and the sky so hot, that I might as...”
– Reveries Of A Bachelor
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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ListenDNTEL - “Why I’m So Unhappy”...
Jan 15th
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“She had a cousin in the Life Guards, with such long legs that he looked like the...”
– David Copperfield
Jan 15th
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in almost every picture #9 →
A book about how difficult it is to photograph a black dog.
Jan 13th
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Good to know →
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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“But those were times when, to forget an evil world, grammarians took pleasure in...”
– The Name Of The Rose
Jan 12th
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“At all events it quite satisfied what he called his conscience.”
– Sheridan LeFanu, Squire Toby’s Will
Jan 11th
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Underworld enemies →
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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ListenSir Richard Bishop - “Al Darazi”...
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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“Perhaps it’s a good thing, Traddles,” said I, “to have an...”
– David Copperfield
Jan 9th
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ListenTape - “Dripstone” Luminarium While...
Jan 3rd