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Category Archives: Literature
FROM THE SEA AND THE MIRROR.
FROM THE SEA AND THE MIRROR. From Auden’s poems about The Tempest: “My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely….” (from Miranda’s Song) “….two wonders as one vow, Pre-empting all, here, there, for ever, long ago.” (from Ferdinand’s Song)
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LEARNING FROM COMIC STRIPS—CALVIN AND HOBBES.
LEARNING FROM COMIC STRIPS—CALVIN AND HOBBES. I posted here about a boy trying to learn to read by watching other children stretched out on the floor reading the “funny papers”. I thought of this when I read this post by … Continue reading
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RESEARCH ON SYNESTHESIA.
RESEARCH ON SYNESTHESIA. This wikipedia article defines synesthesia as “a condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” A favorite college professor of mine had a … Continue reading
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A KIPLING LIMERICK.
A KIPLING LIMERICK. I have posted on limericks and how I think that light verse is an important branch of poetry. Today is the middle of January, and there is playoff game scheduled on the Frozen Tundra in Green Bay. … Continue reading
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VICTORIAN HARPOONS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHALES.
VICTORIAN HARPOONS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHALES. Nick and his friend Jane went to the whaling museum in New Bedford recently and were struck by the fact that whales are being found today that are carrying harpoons that were fired in … Continue reading
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THE WONDER OF THE FUTURE (COMMENT).
THE WONDER OF THE FUTURE (COMMENT). Nick Carraway, before his last reflections on Gatsby’s dream , thinks of the Dutch sailors who first saw Long Island, and of their first glimpse of the American continent. Carraway says: “For a transitory … Continue reading
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REFLECTING ON THE PAST (COMMENT).
REFLECTING ON THE PAST (COMMENT). Lee Bryant commented on my post about GATSBY’s wonderful last sentence, calling attention to the beauty of some of the sentences that go before, and how they give force to that last sentence. I realize … Continue reading
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TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER—WRONGLY—FOR BEING MEAN.
TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER—WRONGLY—FOR BEING MEAN. Dickens is quoted as saying in his diary about Ebenezer Scroggie: “to be remembered through eternity only for being mean seemed the greatest testament to a life wasted.” And that is a message of … Continue reading
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EBENEZER SCROGGIE—ADAM SMITH’S GREAT NEPHEW.
EBENEZER SCROGGIE—ADAM SMITH’S GREAT NEPHEW. After I had posted before Christmas on Scroogenomics, I was pleased to find that Charles Dickens based his character Ebenezer Scrooge on a great nephew of Adam Smith. The story is told here by Timothy … Continue reading
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GATSBY’S LAST SENTENCE.
GATSBY’S LAST SENTENCE. The great last sentence of THE GREAT GATSBY is: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Vidyan Ravinthiran had a review in the Times Literary Supplement (December 9) of Stanley … Continue reading
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