Reading Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” made me miss my bus stop. Twice. Curse those finely-wrought sentences!
The Chimes — Anna Smaill
What would life be like if we communicated with music instead of words? That’s the situation in the dystopian future of The Chimes. People have lost most of their ability to remember in words, so they must rely on objects to … Continue reading
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The bully doesn’t fight because he…
The bully doesn’t fight because he wants to win; he just wants a world in which everything is resolved by fighting. www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-to-keep-terrorists-fro…
Do you use @Wikipedia? You can slip…
Do you use @Wikipedia? You can slip them a few dollars to help keep it free. #keepitfree donate.wikimedia.org/
The Forrests — Emily Perkins
This novel is Dorothy Forrest’s life story, and her complicated family life too. After reading it I felt that I knew her quite well… Continue reading
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The effect of fame: different editions…
The effect of fame: different editions of the same book, published before and after Bill Bryson became famous. twitter.com/bnnt/status/671781406809264128/photo/1
There is nothing respectful in thinking…
There is nothing respectful in thinking that people are too tender or too zealous to defend themselves civilly. www.microphilosophy.net/how-do-we-respect-others-c…
If I asked you a hypothetical question,…
If I asked you a hypothetical question, would you answer it?
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept — Elizabeth Smart
This is an amazing prose poem spanning the author’s love affair with an older married man. The language is raw and rich and really takes you to another place, and usually not a happy one — when she isn’t miserable, … Continue reading
On Looking — Alexandra Horowitz
To find new things, take the path you took yesterday. — John Burroughs It’s amazing what you can see if you actually look at things you’ve seen a hundred times before. Alexandra Horowitz, like most of us, has wandered city … Continue reading
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