so is the Bible, so is La Divina Commedia, so are Æsop’s Fables.” Four Years of Novel Reading: An Account of an Experiment in Popularizing the Study of Fiction, Richard G. Moulton (1896) “All these diverse books agree in three great essentials: they are written from the heart of man (not a man) to the
Why, yes. I am one of those people who have more than one-half dozen blank notebooks in a basket filled with notebooks and pens & such. Reminded me of Missy if Missy were inclined to the psychedelic– which she most decidedly is not. I have not been in the Book Mart in ages. The second
I need barley! This means I need to travel to the really big city. Which means I’ll be back later. Hopefully, The Adventures of Ulysses will have arrived by the time I return and we can talk about that. There’s much to say.
“For if you lay down even a little on little, and do this often, even that may well grow big. He who stores adds to what is there, wards off burning hunger. What is stored up at home is not a source of worry; better for things to be in the house, for what is
Someone compiled the definitive list of 132 Algonquian words used in American (English) at some point. These are the 36 which survived though to Mencken’s day. Dates are of first appearance. If one has nothing better to do for the next month or so, these are great books to read through. One the other hand…
No excuses, I know. But I cannot find a book I had in my hands two days ago (Hanson, Who Killed Homer?). I cannot find the list I made from that book (classic Greek to read). I realized when I was buying a book Mr. Big Food needs (Searle, Minds, Brains, Science) that one of
Thinking about what I will cook on Marica Cooks Monday and I pulled Casserole Magic: 300 Recipes for the Best in One-Dish Meals (1953) from the shelf. Skimmed through the introductory comments while having lunch. You will laugh out loud, too! A great boon to the cook is a new product which is truly remarkable
I had to look something up and figured that infallible source would do just fine. Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb‘s Adventures of Ulysses, an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce’s mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, titled “My Favourite Hero”.[6][7] Joyce told Frank Budgen that
Originally posted November 2012. Here with some minor edits. As you know, the Pilgrims arrived in December 1620, They struggled. In all seriousness, it is fascinating to read Bradford’s account of their first few years. As it turns out, there were deceitful men on both sides of the Atlantic back in those crappy old days, too. You’ve
I woke up this morning and could not remember William Bradford’s first name. THE HORROR. For the next few days The Jungle Book will be paused as we read some Bradford. Meanwhile– and just to keep you up to date– I’m getting out the punch bowl. I’ll be doing the floors. There will be shiny
All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart, and he grew very tired of repeating the same thing a hundred times; but, as Baloo said to Bagheera one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and had run off in a temper: “A man’s cub is a man’s cub, and he
From the Article at WikiArt: “Sugaring Off” was one of Grandma Moses’ most popular themes. Like many of her earliest subjects, it derived from popular illustration—in this case, a well-known Currier & Ives lithograph. Although Moses did at the very start of her career sometimes copy compositions verbatim, she never tried to duplicate this Currier
“And what is a man that he should not run with his brothers?” said Mowgli. “I was born in the jungle; I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle; and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn. Surely they are my brothers!” Bagheera stretched himself at full
Late yesterday afternoon I thought I had finished The Companion Book. The Prairie voles were a struggle. Access to the Mississippi State Library requires that some algorithm sends Mr. Big Food’s phone a push– whatever that is… blah blah blah. The 1978 paper I needed and searched for is only in the stacks. That was
“Something is coming uphill,” said Mother Wolf, twitching one ear. “Get ready.” The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap. Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world—the wolf checked in mid-spring. He
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