Poly Pogo
Just came across this tidbit in old email. In the Pogo comic strip dated 13 December 1951, Churchy and Albert...
Archive for Commonplace Book
Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make...
Austen on journaling
I've finished Mansfield Park, which I'll write more about later, and have started Northanger Abbey, which contains more lively and...
Orwell on writing
Vardibidian's comments on The Elements of Style indirectly brought to mind George Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language."...
Zinsser
Just came across something I posted to a mailing list back in mid-1999; thought it was worth recycling as a...
Spam notes
Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had...
Thoreau on journaling
A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of...
Steerpike
Someone's mention of Gormenghast reminded me that I didn't especially like Titus Groan (the first book) but that it did...
Dancing quote
I can't find my book darts, so here's another commonplace-book entry: Dear me, dancing is peculiar when you really think...
Two Le Guin quotations
I see no reason not to use a journal as, among other things, a commonplace book. So I'll quote two...