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Category Archives: Writing
Frankenstein Season
The Frankenstein Varorium is an online tool which allows the user to explore the iconic Science Fiction novel’s text through its various incarnations, allowing the user to select individual passages and see how they have evolved through different revisions of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ebooks, Europe, History, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Bodleian Library, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Morgan Library & Museum, Science fiction
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Do we ever really learn from history
LEARNING FROM HISTORY David Ferry They said, my saints, my slogan-sayers sang, Be good, my child, in spite of all alarm. They stood, my fathers, tall in a row and said, Be good, be brave, you shall not come to … Continue reading
Every October it becomes important, no, necessary
Leaves by Lloyd Schwartz 1 Every October it becomes important, no, necessary to see the leaves turning, to be surrounded by leaves turning; it’s not just the symbolism, … Continue reading
General Headquarters
When I first read about a lost board game called “General Headquarters” that was created by Kurt Vonnegut, I was certain that it was an elaborate internet hoax. But, apparently I was wrong. Vonnegut’s life was not without its ironies. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged board games, Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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It’s getting to be Edgar Allan Poe season
This is The Bells and Other Poems by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) with illustrations by French-British illustrator Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). It was published by Hodder and Stoughton internationally circa 1912. Poe is best known for his Gothic short fiction and poetry while Dulac was … Continue reading
Heroes & Villains/Heroes and Villains
Heroes and Villains is set in a wild, post-apocalyptic world where folks are divided by a rigid social hierarchy —the Professors, the Barbarians, and the mutant Out People. Young Marianne of the Professor class is abducted by Barbarian Jewel and … Continue reading
A people who have never experienced autumn foliage are inclined to be backward.
When you were an infant in Italy I was very disconcerted to be told that much of the Italian population had never seen the beauties of the autumn foliage in Vermont and New Hampshire. High in the Abruzzi there are … Continue reading
Posted in USA, Writing
Tagged Autumn, May Sarton, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vincent Van Gogh
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It’s really all about mutual aid
It may seem to be a big leap from U.S. Presidential politics to a book published in 1902 by a Russian scientist and anarchist, but this week watching the electioneering I have been thinking about Peter Kropokin’s seminal work Mutual … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Anarchism, Peter Kropotkin, U.S. Politics
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Travel Between The Pages 