Today we turned the page on a new week. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron Apparently no one was born, died, disappeared, liberated, or baptized today. Daily Readings for April 9th Tennyson’s “Early Spring” Poe’s
Thinking about last evening’s movie, A Beautiful Mind, let me to thinking about mathematicians and mathematics in general which led me to The World of Mathematics Volume Four: A small library of the literature of mathematics from A’h-mose the Scribe to Albert Einstein Presented with some commentaries and notes (1956). In a short essay, “Assorted
Earth has gone up from its Gethsemane, And now on Golgotha is crucified; The spear is twisted in the tortured side; The thorny crown still works its cruelty. Hark! while the victim suffers on the tree, There sound through starry spaces, far and wide, Such words as in the last despair are cried: “My God!
[Updated ever so slightly. There were two more readings on the next page.] Born this day in 1770, William Wordsworth. Daily Readings: Landor’s “To Wordsworth” (Can’t find it. Here’s Landor’s bio. “To the Cuckoo” “Daffodils” “Tintern Abbey“ “Lucy Gray” Arnold’s “Memorial verses” Daffodils [I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud] I wander’d lonely as a cloud
Today, in 1909, Commander Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole! I am trying to figure out where I can get my hands on the other 22 volumes of The Pocket University readings, either digitally or in crappy old book form. LibraryThing has the complete list: I’ve clicked on a few, including the one containing
Born this day in 1834, Frank R. Stockton. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children’s fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. That Infallible Source That is my table of crappy
Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread
Last evening I said, If you, like me, like poking around junk stores Covered Casseroles post I then posted the question, “Should that be ‘as I’?” Concluded it should, and awaited SueK’s response. SueK agreed, “as I” and offered a rephrasing. I feel as if (!) we should get to the bottom of this, and
I’d like to recommend you take a look at Dave Kings’ blog, Endless Roaming. In his own words, Dave is an AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLER THAT LOVES TO “ROAM” OUR GLOBE, CREATOR OF ENDLESSROAMING.COM SHARING THE EXPERIENCE THROUGH WORD AND PHOTOGRAPHY. CURRENTLY RESIDING IN MY HOME OF NEWTOWN SYDNEY BUT HOPE TO BE BACK ON THE ROAD
Let’s just power through a few days all at once. I’ll not do too much research on any one. 3/31 Andrew Marvell (born 1621), John Donne (died 1631). I cannot remember what took me away from this, and it’s a danged shame I didn’t get back to it. Of course I know what happened! It
From Internet Archive! Here’s the page.
AoSHQ Sunday Morning Book Thread
On this day in 1918 Foch was made Commander of Allied Armies. Who knew? That infallible source: Ferdinand Foch (French: [fɔʃ]; 2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders, and Artois campaigns of 1914–1916, Foch became the Allied
GDR 3/27/20 Thackeray’s “Thorns in the Cushion, Pt. 1“ I got sort of bogged down in that, so I thumbed through some of the “Sketches” in Selected Works of William Makepeace Thackeray Including The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., The Four Georges, London Travels and Sketches (The Book League of America, New York. 1942). Several
Yesterday we turned the page on a new week in the GDR calendar. For whomever things were written aforetime were written for our knowledge. St. Paul Born yesterday in 1859 A.E. Housman. From that infallible source [thoughts rant on that infallible source here]: Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known
Yesterday I was swamped doing thing that must be done. Bread turned out great, by the way– but that’s not what sidetracked me. More on that shortly. Died yesterday, in the year 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The GDR honors him a choice of four daily readings. GDR 3/24/20 The Building of the Ship The Skeleton
The welfare of the family is largely in the hands of the one who provides the three meals a day … Children, like flowers, thrive best when they have besides the right kind of nourishing food and care, plenty of sunshine and out-of door-air … Well nourished children are happy children … The newer knowledge
Disappeared this day in 1909, John Davidson. You read that correctly. Not born. Not died. Disappeared. That’s what The Guide to Reading (1925) says. According to The Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge (1955), Davidson was a Brit born (1857), married (1885), published good stuff “all full of remarkably fresh and unconventional beauty”
It’s Charles Lamb! I am a fan of Charles & Mary Lamb. I am particularly fond of Tales from Shakspeare (not a typo, that’s how it was spelled back in ancient times). I could go on and on about the Lambs, their works and letters, their lives. Unfortunately, I squandered my going on and on
So I’m reading a biography from an archived Wikipedia article. Downloaded it to Evernote in 2016 but had not until just now read it all the way through. Along the way, I’m saying things like, “Hum. Never heard that before.” And, “Really???” Then I get to the end. TWO FREAKING REFERENCES??? WTF??? AND– the one