As my friend began reading William Morris’s News From Nowhere, or, An Epic of Rest, I thought I might take that journey too–and the existence of an audio recording guaranteed it in the British Medical…
Browsing Category Literature
**UPDATED**In Contradiction Against Itself: The CIA and The Government
UPDATED: 5/21 [I’ve added one example of Slahi’s book as an illustration of the Report on Torture–there are many others I may add later.] Last night on Interchange (The State of Terror: Guantanamo Diary) the…
If You Really Want to Know the Truth: Salinger’s Influence on Mohamedou Ould Slahi
I am reading Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary. Well, actually, listening to it. You can find out a lot about it at The Guardian website dedicated to it. Something I heard and noticed I have…
Soldier-Sentimentalist-Poet
Two snippets from Ford’s The Good Soldier (1924). The word “sentimental” or some form of it occurs 28 times in the novel–a use for big data! ************ For all good soldiers are sentimentalists—all good soldiers…
The Argument of Arms
Here is the opening of an essay by the Australian poet A.D. Hope called “The Argument of Arms.” It is collected in his 1974 book of essays, The Cave and the Spring. I imagine Melville…
Audio: Walden “Economy” B
I’m not sure how to label these so I’ll just use the alphabet to keep them in order. This recording sounds different than the last (more tinny, big-roomy)–my production values aren’t my highest priority at…
12 Minutes of Walden
To begin reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. (Apologies for my Latin.) AUDIO FILE: Walden-Economy-A ECONOMY WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a…
To Act, or Not to Act
The final section (XII) of Harold Goddard’s essay on Coriolanus found in his brilliant book The Meaning of Shakespeare screws a brilliant reading to the sticking place (to steal a line from Lady M.) compressed cellulose,…
The Great American Anything
Here is a parody of the idea of “The Great American Anything” offered by the character Jerusalem Webster Stiles (who is the “devil” to John Shawnessy’s “Faust”) in Ross Lockridge, Jr.’s Raintree County. One should…
The Great Lawsuit (Audio)
This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. “The Great Lawsuit” (linked full text) appeared as an essay in The Dial (#4) in…