A Meme Without a Name
This meme has been going around for awhile. Since it’s Friday and I’ve not been able to read much this …
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Emerson, the Biography
It took me a long time to read Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson. It’s a thick …
Lazy Links
Feeling a bit unmotivated this evening. Maybe it is all the gray, rainy weather we have been having of late. …
Fall of the House of Usher
I re-read Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher and tried to like it better than I did the first …
It is the What, and Not the How
Emerson’s essay Character is less about character and more about what constitutes the foundation for Emerson’s ideal character. So what …
Another Homework Day
Where has the day gone? Well I know where it went. Homework! But good homework. I’ve been learning quite a …
I’m an Inspiration…Or Am I?
Since the nonprofit I work at merged with a larger nonprofit a couple months ago, I have a new boss. …
A Little Reading Update
I’m sure you all have heard that Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize. I think it is well deserved …
Jekyll and Hyde
Vladimir Nabokov begins his lecture on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with a brief outline of the plot and then …
Of Bookstores and Professional Associations
I neglected to mention the other day the results of Saturday night’s date night at Barnes and Noble. The store …
