Quote of the day - Let it stand
This one comes via my friend and rival literatus</i>, Bloomsboy[*]. It concerns James Joyce’s relationship with protégé and Waiting for Godot playwrigh...
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The best blog post that I’ve read so far in 2012…
… is really a reprint of this 1865 letter from an ex-slave to his old master. I’ll let Letters of Note take it away:<div style="text-align: center;">To...
Cardinal sins
The French statesman Charles Talleyrand famously lamented of the Bourbons: “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.“<table align="center" cellp...
Quote of the day - A priori reasoning
"The a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts." - Erasmus Darwin, writing to ...
The Meters - Ain’t No use
Because it’s Sunday and you deserve it. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mc8g41fB28k" width="420"...