Fortinbras, knee deep in Danes, lived happily ever after. • Hamlet Hamlet ain’t it gory, Continue reading →
OMG internet. After all these years, you can still surprise me. From the Auchinleck Manuscript – “one of the National Library of Scotland’s greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language … Continue reading →
Whoo boy I’m pooped. Between all the nonsense yesterday, then the wind banging stuff around, and the rain pouring down and mysterious bangs in the night and my brain going in ten directions I didn’t get much sleep last night. … Continue reading →
he more beautiful the art, the more it is essentially the work of people who feel themselves wrong; — who are striving for the fulfillment of a law, and the grasp of a loveliness, which they have not yet attained, which they feel even farther and farther from attaining, the more they strive for it. – John Ruskin Continue reading →
According to the Writer’s Almanac today is the birthday of Wallace Stevens, and The Emperor of Ice Cream was the poem du jour: Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. Which was great … Continue reading →
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
