Poetry and criticism being by no means the universal concern of the world, but of idle men who write in their closets, and of idle men who read there. “the Author’s Preface” to An Essay On Criticism, Alexander Pope I was traveling around the shelves this afternoon and I came upon Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred
On this day in 1819, Walt Whitman was born. Regarded as one of America’s greatest poets, Walt Whitman joins the ranks of Dante, Shakespeare, Virgil and Homer in terms of artistry and exceptional skill in the written words. https://waltwhitman.com It seems a bit… early to be making the second claim, don’t you think? Daily Reading May 31
The calendar in the Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading is based on is 1922’s. In 1922, Memorial Day fell on May 30th. You’ll recall we read Hale’s The Man Without a Country last Monday. Today’s Daily Readings are from May 25th. Born on May 25 in the year 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Daily Readings
I just want to know what the hell bubble tea is. And having found out, what the hell is wrong with you people? Plus. How can this be unique to every state if more than one state is ordering the same thing. Too early. More coffee. Found at AoSHQ.
Prior to the year 1925 (publication date of our Pocket University Guide to Daily Reading) nothing of note happened on this day. What a drag. Daily Reading May 29 De Quincey’s “Pleasures of Opium” from Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) I skimmed it. There are some good lines, I suppose. Oh, just, subtle,
The card says, “Aren’t you glad you have a daughter with her own private library?” It will come as no surprise that my 84 year old mom is missing her local library. She loves to read. Yesterday she was lamenting the fact that she was reduced to re-reading things in her own private library which
Please don’t run away! This stuff is not rocket science– heck, it’s not even neuroscience. It’s just learning how to look critically at graphs. What we have in Fig. 1 is a heavily edited graph– I erased a bunch of labels and lines (using Gimp) so that all our eyes see are the data points
Today we turn the page. All the best experiences of humanity, folded, saved, freighted to us here! Some of these tiny ships we call Old and New Testaments, Homer, Æschylus, Plato, Juvenal, etc. Precious Minims! — Walt Whitman Born this day in 1779, Thomas Moore. Upon Byron’s death, Moore acquired all of Byron’s notes and
It was beautiful. Tie dye. Slab of marble. Painted and textured wall. There was a time, and I can’t think of when it was, when book covers were looked like this. Different colors but this sort of theme. Can’t seem to put my hands on one right now and am not highly motivated to go
Once again, nothing happened today. But wait until you hear what happened one week from today in 1593. You won’t believe it! Daily Reading May 27 Lady Dufferin‘s “Lament of the Irish Emigrant“ Hawthorne’s “Wakefield“ My Canadian friends may find Lady Dufferin rather interesting. Sounds as if she was well liked by you folks up
No one was born or died or executed today yesterday. That’s okay. Daily Reading May 26 Bret Haret’s “Melons“ The Society upon the Stanislaus Both are from The Pocket U. Library Vol. VII: American Wit and Humor. I liked “Melons.” Bret Harte. Ring a bell? Faintly. The Works of Bret Harte, part of a small
This is Pt. 4 of the story of Missy’s Epic Novel (so called). Originally published March 2019. Pt. 1: Missy Begins in the Middle; Pt. 2: Missy’s Epic Novel (so called); Pt. 3: “Have I missed something?” “Marica? Do you have a minute?” Missy asked as she closed the lid to her laptop. “Of course,
It will be interesting to watch this throughout the day. The top shot is from the radar in Columbus, Miss. The system is moving southeast to northwest at just under 20knots. The bottom shot is from Jackson, Miss. radar. That system is moving southwest to northeast at just over 10knots. Crash? Looks a lot like
It’s quote-unquote kabobs because clearly, it is not kabobs. And Mr. Big Food modified the recipe to include some sort of marinade that the ingredients marinated in all afternoon. Then as he was tossing the stuff around, the marinade substituted for butter. The reasoning was that the temperature on the surface of the flat-top– I
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