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Helen Keller’s sources
Helen Keller’s sources
The New York Review Books volume of Helen Keller’s writing, The World I Live In (2012), has a few pages of notes identifying sources for quoted material, but many such passages are left unidentified. Having looked up the unidentified bits in Keller’s prose (thank you, Google Books), I thought it appropriate to share them here, for anyone who might looking. They reflect a great breadth of reading and are someimes quoted imperfectly, from memory perhaps, or from a faulty source.
#HelenKeller#poetry
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Helen Keller’s sources
Too many movies?
Too many movies?
We knew that we may not have watched too many old movies when the Criterion Channel feature 1950: Peak Noir had two movies — count ’em, two (of seventeen) — that were new to us.
#film
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Too many movies?
“An old, empty tire”
“An old, empty tire”
At the zoo, Mr. Palomar observes Copito de Nieve, or Snowflake, still the world’s only known albino gorilla.
#ItaloCalvino
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“An old, empty tire”
Too many movies?
Too many movies?
We know that we may have watched too many old movies when, at a glance, we recognize the servant Mr. Oates in The Spiral Staircase (1946) as the auto mechanic in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950).
#film
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Too many movies?
Jim has spoken before
Jim has spoken before
Predating Percival Everett’s novel James, an unusual piece of literary criticism in the form of a letter from John Isaac Hawkins, Jim's son, to “Mister Finn,” in which John recounts his father’s commentary on Huck’s tale.
#fiction
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Jim has spoken before
Baking soda for the dishes
Baking soda for the dishes
For the first time in many years we have dishes and glasses that sparkle, with virtually no hard-water stains.
#lifehacks
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Baking soda for the dishes
Bloody Trump
Bloody Trump
In The Washington Post, Philip Kennicott writes about a Getty Museum exhibit and “the ancient, volatile Christian ideas behind Trump’s obsession with blood.”
#democracy#autocracy
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Bloody Trump
Today’s Saturday Stumper
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Horned mascot (associated with 30 Down), “Horned mascot (associated with 29 Down).”
#crosswords
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Today’s Saturday Stumper
Washington Week in Review misses the point
Washington Week in Review misses the point
Talk about missing the point: the important thing to say about Donald Trump’s God Bless the USA Bible is not that it’s expensive or that it’s tacky, both points made on tonight’s Washington Week in Review. The important thing to say, and what no one said, is that this Bible is an exercise in Christian nationalism.
#democracy#autocracy
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Washington Week in Review misses the point
Moon-like
Moon-like
Paying a little more attention to the moon made me think about the moon-like flavor of the supper in a Ritz ad that I clipped some time ago.
#advertising#food
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Moon-like