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Books, SF, etc. E is for English eeriness, WTF is for Hawk. Quote #23 →. April 27, 2015. 8220;I learned later that Rhody always automatically remembered her place in a book. She was not good with phone numbers, and even her Social Security number gave her trouble occasionally, but the page number of her current book would just come to her without effort as soon as she held it and saw the cover. Tagged with Nicholson Baker. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Monophthalmus Rex: Christ, Scientist
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Thursday, July 10, 2014. Princeton: 2002) , but seems to have put it aside at the outbreak of the war. He described it as "a new marriage of heaven and hell" (ibid., p. 409), but it seems to me a marriage of just about everything in the world to everything else in the world. Our judgement of the great religions will depend upon our estimate of the accuracy of their historical forecast. By their fruits ye shall know them.". The teaching of Jesus is the first application of the scientific approach to human...
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Monophthalmus Rex: November 2014
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Sunday, November 9, 2014. Lachrymose is a funny word. One of the Latin words my students were to learn last week was lacrima. I knew this was wrong immediately, but couldn't figure out why for a minute. The ending, of course, was wrong: It is not pronounced that way, but I knew that the intermediate Latin word was lacrimosus. Full of tears" and that the - osus. Ending (meaning "full of.") becomes "-ous" in English (so gloriosus. Becomes "glorious" and curiosus. 1660s, "tear-like," from Latin lacrimosus.
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Monophthalmus Rex: October 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014. You learn something, well, new to you. First, the extent to which the Greeks identified music with poetry was greater than I had always believed. I knew, of course, that no poetry was uttered aloud without being sung, and that the names for the types of poetry (Lyric, Tragedy, Comedy, etc.) had to do with music. What I did not know, as this: "In his Poetics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988, p. 7; citing Poetics. So, the point isn't so much that the Greeks didn't conceive of unsung ...
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Monophthalmus Rex: September 2014
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. Furiously missing the point. Randall Jarrell, "Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden's Ideology," in The Third Book of Criticism. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969), pp. 185-187. Auden] is fond of the statement Freedom is the recognition of necessity. But he has never recognized what it means in his own case: this if he understands certain of his own attitudes as causally. Let me make this plain with a quotation. On the first page of the New York Times Book Review.
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Monophthalmus Rex: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. I am always made miserable when I look at Facebook, and I ought to have learned my lesson about wandering down that dark path, beset, as it is, on all sides with nonsense and fluff and walls of opinion everyone else shares but me. Most of all, I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. About which rich jerk had the hardest childhood; aggrieved my sister-in-law by posting this. One of the comments made reference to the rise in anti-intellectualism, which is, of course, nonsense. Ha...
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“Unfortunate, dark, and immoral goshawk…” | In the Brake
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Books, SF, etc. My Jetpack and Echopraxia →. 8220;Unfortunate, dark, and immoral goshawk…”. October 31, 2013. But what on earth was the book to be about? This is T.H. White’s own appraisal of his book. And it’s an apt one — aside from the last phrase. White actually does a damn fine job of expressing how very difficult a task he has undertaken, a task that is exhausting, demoralizing, exhilarating, and at last heartbreaking. The Once and Future King. Jesses, mews, eyas, mute. Anyone who’s read. WhiteR...
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E is for English eeriness, WTF is for Hawk | In the Brake
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Books, SF, etc. Quote #22 →. E is for English eeriness, WTF is for Hawk. April 12, 2015. For me there’s probably no more alluring title for a longform article than “The Eeriness of the English Countryside.”. Robert Macfarlane’s on a tear recently, between this and his other recent Guardian article. About older landscape terminology in Britain. That one was right up my alley — it’s probably obvious that I dig esoteric landscape wordlore, given the name of this blog. H Is for Hawk. The smackdown — th...
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Monophthalmus Rex: Science!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. I am always made miserable when I look at Facebook, and I ought to have learned my lesson about wandering down that dark path, beset, as it is, on all sides with nonsense and fluff and walls of opinion everyone else shares but me. Most of all, I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. About which rich jerk had the hardest childhood; aggrieved my sister-in-law by posting this. One of the comments made reference to the rise in anti-intellectualism, which is, of course, nonsense. Ha...
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Monophthalmus Rex: You learn something, well, new to you
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Monday, October 13, 2014. You learn something, well, new to you. First, the extent to which the Greeks identified music with poetry was greater than I had always believed. I knew, of course, that no poetry was uttered aloud without being sung, and that the names for the types of poetry (Lyric, Tragedy, Comedy, etc.) had to do with music. What I did not know, as this: "In his Poetics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988, p. 7; citing Poetics. So, the point isn't so much that the Greeks didn't conceive of unsung ...
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