If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I seemed, in my Power to the People post, to be bashing Shakespeare, so I need to explain further:
Shakespeare does, in fact, bring it. He’s one guy THEY tell you to read whose reputation is deserved, unlike PeeBee […]
Entries Tagged as 'Lovely Language'
Shakespeare’s Funeral: An Open Letter to High School Students
January 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Tags: Lovely Language · School Journal
In Honor of Columbus Day
October 5th, 2007 · 7 Comments
A word from my favorite author and ultimate hero, Kurt Vonnegut:
This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
One of them was a science-fiction writer named Kilgore Trout. He was a nobody at the time, and he supposed his life was over. […]
Tags: Pointing Out the Obvious · Books are Sexy · Lovely Language
A Well-Turned Phrase: Snippets from my bedside reading
September 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
From “The Mystery of Marriage” by Mike Mason (p. 13-14):
… in getting married one espouses not an institution but a person, not a narrowness but an unimaginable breadth of possibility. For a person is the single most limitless entity in creation, and if there is anything that is even more unlimited and unrestrained in its […]
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