From Poe to Plath to Twain, some of literature’s most beloved and the words that made it so.
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An ancient unknown language engraved on a clay tablet was unearthed by archaeologists working in Turkey.
The tablet, dating back more than 2500 years, is believed to be from the ancient Assyrian city of Tushan.
Peter Gizzi, jubilat Interview, Issue 14
Shrine to John Keats on the occasion of his birthday:
A bottle of claret, a copy of Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary, autumn fruits, a rock of limestone, a feather from Dogtown and his letters.
I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason—Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge.
Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying “light reading,” in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to […]
“Rabbit, Run”, by John Updike
