Underestimating power
Cute bit from Overheard in New York: The United Nations, Encapsulated Dude #1: They have been underestimating my power. Dude... (More...)
Cute bit from Overheard in New York: The United Nations, Encapsulated Dude #1: They have been underestimating my power. Dude... (More...)
Found while trying to decide whether to keep various paperbacks from among my father's books: It is not always a... (More...)
Peter Dickinson is probably best known in sf circles for the fictional-science book The Flight of Dragons and the kids'... (More...)
Another thing I just found in old email. Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from The Buck in... (More...)
Just came across this tidbit in old email. In the Pogo comic strip dated 13 December 1951, Churchy and Albert... (More...)
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)
I've finished Mansfield Park, which I'll write more about later, and have started Northanger Abbey, which contains more lively and... (More...)
Vardibidian's comments on The Elements of Style indirectly brought to mind George Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language."... (More...)
Just came across something I posted to a mailing list back in mid-1999; thought it was worth recycling as a... (More...)
Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)
A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of... (More...)
I can't find my book darts, so here's another commonplace-book entry: Dear me, dancing is peculiar when you really think... (More...)
I see no reason not to use a journal as, among other things, a commonplace book. So I'll quote two... (More...)