George C. Scott A Christmas Carol
I rather like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I like it so much that two years ago I created an annotated version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I liked Patrick Ste...
Category: Commentary
Elsewhere for November 3, 2018
You should read this for 11/3/2018: Art and Film Barbra Streisand’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ has an A+ anecdote about her calling up Tim Cook Books, ...
David Brooks and Sandwich Gate
Who the Hell is David Brooks? I asked myself this after reading a parody “I Am David Brooks’ Friend With Only A High School Degree. I Have Never Seen A Sandwich...
Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns! Hot cross Buns! One a penny, two a penny Hot cross buns! If you have no daughters Give them to your sons One a penny, two a penny Hot cross buns...
Western Wind
Western wind, when will thou blow? The small rain down can rain. Christ, if my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again! Anonymous; British Library Royal App...
Donne’s A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day
Saint Lucy’s day is December 13. The Julian calendar was still in use when Donne wrote, so that the Winter solstice and consequently the shortest day of the yea...
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Serialized and Annotated
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was first published on December 19, 1843. He had written it at a feverish pace for six weeks beginning it in October of that ...
Donne’s Meditation XVII
John Donne Meditation XVII from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)1 The Devotions were written, for the most part, in December of 1623 when Donne was reco...
On the Reviewing of Books
[I now] suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to score a point or ...