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Light reading: Work TBR
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015. New "tower" approach to organizing work TBR in bedroom (I think best lying in bed! I have another one of these in a box waiting to be assembled. But it must be said that the screwholes were so badly bored that the person helping me assemble the first one had to take the pieces to the hardware store and get them to help her ream them out so that the screws would actually go through! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. A snippet of the style book.
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Light reading: Ingots
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Sunday, July 26, 2015. At the New York Times, Oliver Sacks on the consolations of the physical sciences. Next to the circle of lead on my table is the land of bismuth: naturally occurring bismuth from Australia; little limousine-shaped ingots of bismuth from a mine in Bolivia; bismuth slowly cooled from a melt to form beautiful iridescent crystals terraced like a Hopi village; and, in a nod to Euclid and the beauty of geometry, a cylinder and a sphere made of bismuth. Links courtesy of Dave Lull.).
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Light reading: JMD for IHD
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Friday, July 31, 2015. I have taken a long time to get around to writing this up, partly I think out of reluctance to contemplate the whole question but also partly because it's much more troublesome to write a blog post with lots of links than to paste in simple text! But it is overdue, I need to send the link to a few people and here goes: these are some of the words I said for my father at the memorial we held at Penn in April. First, some words a few friends of his sent via email. In high school, whe...
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Light reading: Closing some tabs
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Which I will now leave in my office so that I have a computer permanently there, and it may be the source of future blog postings, but it will no longer be the main device.). Neglected books still neglected. Including a very funny one noted by Anthony Burgess (clearly a major source for his own somewhat neglected novel The Wanting Seed. Listen to all ten of August Wilson's plays for free between now and the end of August. Jane Goodall on 55 years at Gombe. View my complete profile.
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Light reading: "Sight moaty and dimmish"
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Saturday, June 27, 2015. Sight moaty and dimmish". Diseases incident to literary and sedentary persons. Its useful and worth to know. Thanks for the sharing. So informative as well. Get great dissertation writing help. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A Magic Circle playlist.
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Light reading: 44
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. I need an amanuensis to come and type up these notes for me! I have a lot to do before I leave on Friday, including thinking about packing for three totally different climates and sets of activities. Will still be writing Oxford talk next week in Cayman, not optimal but inevitable. I have not made enough writing time in the last year or so, and am looking forward to getting the chance to remedy the omission. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have published four novels and two ...
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Light reading: Of verbal criticism
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015. David Mallet], Of Verbal Criticism: An Epistle to Mr. Pope. Occasioned by Theobald’s Shakespear, and Bentley’s Milton. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1733). See, in the darkness of dull Authors bred,. With all their refuse lumber’d in his head,. Long years consum’d, large volumes daily turn’d,. Read perhaps, while Maro. In error obstinate, in wrangling loud,. Unbred, unsocial, positive, and proud;. Forth steps at last the self-applauding Wight. With venerable toys, from Rome. The mi...
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Light reading: Appointments
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Monday, July 20, 2015. Jessamyn West on what librarians would like to see in the new Librarian of Congress. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. View my complete profile. A snippet of the style book. The missing notes for chapter six. A Magic Circle playlist.
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Light reading: John Wesley's boots under glass
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Monday, October 06, 2008. John Wesley's boots under glass. A delightfully ghoulish story about the exhumation of Cardinal Newman's remains. With further commentary by Libby Purves. Thanks to my father for the link! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. View my complete profile.
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Light reading: Fever dreams
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Sunday, July 26, 2015. Tim Adams on Hanya Yanahihara, at the Guardian. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. View my complete profile. A snippet of the style book. The missing notes for chapter six. A Magic Circle playlist. My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012).
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