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2011.03.09: Weather isn't climate in the months which have "r" in them
2011.03.06: A lantern on the stern
2011.02.24: This field of glory is harvested
2011.02.23: A habit of attentive clarity
2011.02.22: They augur misgovernment at a distance
2011.02.21: 'Tis new to thee
2011.02.20: The infinite variety of human experience
2011.02.19: A scholastick life has no other tendency than to vitiate the morals and contract the understanding
2011.02.18: The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
2011.02.17: Absolute and relative outcomes and individual effort
2011.02.16: With all the severe limitations which that implies
2011.02.15: We must look to events and trends much closer to our own time
2011.02.14: Too often, however, we proceed as if we did not recognize this distinction
2011.02.13: Justice or injustice is characteristic of a process
2011.02.12: The disadvantages of the disadvantaged
2011.02.11: I don't understand how Nixon won
2011.02.10: To vent my spleen against
2011.02.10: Very seldom fail of success
2011.02.09: So that there was no man then alive who could remember so severe a winter as this was
2011.02.08: They cease to be men
2011.02.07: Their desire instead is to manage dissent
2011.02.07: The second half of your program will destroy the first half
2011.02.06: Always to be a child
2011.02.06: Sic transit gloria mundi
2011.02.05: There is more sea
2011.02.04: Its hatred of silence
2011.02.03: Complexity horizon
2011.02.03: They keep dropping in
2011.02.02: The executioner
2011.02.01: Democracy cannot thrive without a certain diet of truth
2011.01.31: Inimical to knowledge
2011.01.30: Chandler and Fleming
2011.01.29: Count it a bondage to fix a belief
2011.01.25: Ouch!
2011.01.24: The myth
2011.01.23: The clock has stopped
2011.01.23: Bad Luck
2011.01.20: 60,000 words
2011.01.19: Misguided in different ways
2011.01.15: It is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year
2011.01.12: Greek Middle Class
2011.01.09: Is all our Life, then, but a dream
2011.01.05: Three stages
2011.01.04: Accurate observation
2011.01.03: Their work will live as long as time endures
2010.12.29: Companies that can both execute and adapt are very rare indeed
2010.12.28: The market performs better than companies do
2010.12.23: A single mouse
2010.12.23: He would sally forth to seek them
2010.12.22: To live is to think
2010.12.22: To move in harmony
2010.12.21: He became extraordinarily careful
2010.12.20: Swirling personal experience
2010.12.19: All else was extraneous
2010.12.18: Polonius' advice
2010.12.17: Consider a system that is constantly changing
2010.12.16: Define: Sacerdotal
2010.12.15: Ostrich egg brunch
2010.12.14:
2010.12.13: We ought to be able to show some practical difference
2010.12.12: Or courage to forget
2010.12.09: The one is man that shall hereafter be
2010.12.08: Does not know what to do with it.
2010.12.07: A date which will live in infamy
2010.12.07: You will only be deceiving yourself
2010.12.05: The bad economist confines himself to the visible effect
2010.12.04: The Broken Window
2010.12.03: A fantastic house of cards
2010.12.02: It is notorious that facts are compatible with opposite emotional comments
2010.12.01: If God had made man a solitary animal . . .
2010.11.29: The main idea is to be interesting
2010.11.29: Footprints on the sands of time
2010.11.28: Importance versus Epistemological Uncertainty
2010.11.28: Enthusiasts with something to sell
2010.11.27: Vilified by base and illiterate scribblers
2010.11.26: The multitude of books
2010.11.25: Be quite candid with ourselves and with the facts
2010.11.24: Canonical Milestones
2010.11.23: An order that always refers to limited aspects of reality
2010.11.22: Pleasure has no fellowship with virtue
2010.11.21: Always a child
2010.11.21: They proceed from diverse intellectual preoccupations
2010.11.19: Homer nods
2010.11.18: There are only human beings
2010.11.17: Getting to know the world
2010.11.16: And then I call to mind eternity
2010.11.15: Evidence
2010.11.14: Responsibility must be both definite and limited
2010.11.13: Sic transit Gloria mundi
2010.11.12: The chief business of the American people is business
2010.11.11: Time to stop repeating the wise sayings and begin to believe them
2010.11.07: If he knew he would never be caught
2010.11.06: It requires a kind of conjury
2010.11.03: New perspectives on reality based on information mediated by symbols
2010.11.02: A link in a chain, a phase in a process
2010.11.01: Our choices unleash consequences that gain momentum over time
2010.10.31: Our own profound lack of interest
2010.10.30: Not the givens. But the choices we took.
2010.10.29: Our ignorance must necessarily be infinite
2010.10.28: 3,000 years of learning
2010.10.27: They give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being
2010.10.26: There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite
2010.10.25: It always takes two to make a discussion reasonable
2010.10.25: It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious
2010.10.23: There is no history of mankind
2010.10.22: The notion of loss
2010.10.21: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance
2010.10.20: The pursuit of knowledge in the Middle Ages
2010.10.19: As admirable and sound as it is dangerous
2010.10.17: It is obvious that this preposterous convention cannot continue
2010.10.16: Staunch courage of yesteryear
2010.10.15: A stranger to history
2010.10.14: The two modes of thought do not mix well
2010.10.13: Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories . .
2010.10.12: Not just a discovery but an orientation
2010.10.11: In order to live in a wider world
2010.10.10: Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory
2010.10.09: How is "real book" defined?
2010.10.08: Wiser for all time
2010.10.08: It is easier than ever to travel, and not at all easier to write well
2010.10.07: The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic
2010.10.06: You will never get away from the marks that it has given you
2010.10.05: The Dash
2010.10.04: Men will never cease from toil and misery by day and night
2010.10.04: Where human judgment abdicates
2010.10.03: English Teeth! HEROES' Teeth!
2010.10.03: The first key to wisdom
2010.10.02: Where the pools are bright and deep
2010.10.01: It does not require that scientists be unbiased
2010.09.30: Most important things aren't exciting
2010.09.29: This is education.
2010.09.28: The passion for freedom breeds the rage for order
2010.09.27: The friends who frequent it
2010.09.26: A set of impossible demands
2010.09.25: The thick darkness of futurity
2010.09.24: Thus were the trials of my young life made coherent
2010.09.23: Libri aut liberi
2010.09.22: This rule should be observed
2010.09.21: Two petals from that wild-rose tree
2010.09.20: Something ancient is calling
2010.09.19: The Thames, unmindful of the foolish crowds upon its banks, flowed on quietly as of yore.
2010.09.18: For logic is about truth.
2010.09.18: The wish without the act
2010.09.17: Good at Repelling Invaders
2010.09.17: Its purpose is something else
2010.09.16: That's a reader for you
2010.09.16: Epistemological Modesty
2010.09.15: But only by virtue of its results
2010.09.14: His only home
2010.09.13: Define: Armigerous
2010.09.12: I keep six honest serving-men
2010.09.11: A hypothetical bookshelf manifesto
2010.09.10: To advance upon them harmoniously
2010.09.10: Hard work
2010.09.09: No real acquaintance
2010.09.08: You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding
2010.09.07: I see my life pass before my eyes
2010.09.06: The future belongs . . .
2010.09.06: You're not thinking; you're just being logical
2010.09.05: A sojourner, as all my fathers were
2010.09.05: Faithful old Mr. Brain
2010.09.05: The same fragility as a life
2010.09.04: Such comfort
2010.09.04: Tantamount to disenfranchising yourself
2010.09.03: Observations on literary durability
2010.09.02: In earnest
2010.09.01: Define: Puissance
2010.08.31: A startling mobility of views
2010.08.30: Getting better and more equal
2010.08.30: Die Ente
2010.08.29: Such immortal vermin
2010.08.29: Re-establishing our former ignorance
2010.08.29: define: Amphigoric
2010.08.29: Not because men will become better
2010.08.28: A story is a doorway
2010.08.28: A shore alien, eerie, and utterly desolate
2010.08.28: As long as we cannot prophesy
2010.08.27: Remarkably, astonishingly, dramatically positive
2010.08.26: Confusing possibility with inevitability
2010.08.25: Few things were more demoralizing
2010.08.25: Electronic Home Library (1959)
2010.08.24: Irrational optimism
2010.08.23: Epochcentric bias
2010.08.23: Learning involves processing information
2010.08.22: The craft of written words
2010.08.22: Human intentions
2010.08.21: The consolation of imaginary things . . .
2010.08.21: Boundaries
2010.08.20: Specialisation encouraged innovation
2010.08.19: I wonder what turns of fate have protected it
2010.08.18: We do not all desire the same things
2010.08.18: The company of adults a strain
2010.08.17: A man that is young in years, may be old in hours
2010.08.16: The causal process is circular
2010.08.16: Community as the basis for epistemology
2010.08.16: The problem of predicting what will last
2010.08.15: Transition from a human context
2010.08.15: Before setting out to find the solution
2010.08.15: The Orc-Urizen cycle
2010.08.15: With his nasty hair and hands
2010.08.14: Focused attention
2010.08.14: Red of tooth and claw
2010.08.14: Cameos in history
2010.08.13: Idiots
2010.08.13: Transmitting extrasomatic information
2010.08.13: Where you are now depends on where you've been
2010.08.13: How the past has shaped our behavior
2010.08.13: Patterns
2010.08.13: The metropolitan who lacks urbanity
2010.08.12: They see themselves as readers
2010.08.12: A 2 percent chance of falling into poverty
2010.08.12: Rags to riches
2010.08.12: Healthy, wealthy, and wise
2010.08.12: Storytelling, communication, and limits
2010.08.11: Children's Books and Adult's Issues
2010.08.11: A phenomenal ability to consciously focus their attention
2010.08.11: Solvitur ambulando
2010.08.11: Define: Lubricity
2010.08.10: Why, a machine
2010.08.10: Emerson on manners
2010.08.10: Different men seek after happiness in different ways
2010.08.09: The books they read
2010.08.09: Dora and SpongeBob
2010.08.09: The Kids' Books Are All Right
2010.08.08: You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding
2010.08.07: It evens itself out
2010.08.06: Reporter
2010.08.05: Adventure is a sign of incompetence
2010.08.04: The significance of language for the evolution of culture
2010.08.03:
2010.08.02: A centuries-long period of Lent
2010.08.01: Tobacco, alcohol and books
2010.07.31: It is a man's duty to have books.
2010.07.30: A certain freshness of spirit
2010.07.29: The contents of someone's bookcase . . .
2010.07.28: Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof
2010.07.27: I quite forgot what Bismarck said
2010.07.26: Pippa's Song
2010.07.26: 500 million books can't all be wrong
2010.07.26: Usage evolves itself little disturbed by their likes & dislikes
2010.07.25: It is by the imagination only
2010.07.25: My library was dukedom large enough
2010.07.25: Truth and politicians
2010.07.24: Dr. Johnson on reading
2010.07.23: Excellence and ennui
2010.07.22: The Leak in the Dike
2010.07.21: Any movement that deprecates facts . . .
2010.07.20: Work
2010.07.20: Policy-based evidence-making
2010.07.19: The final and great remaining question
2010.07.18: Spain was flooded with gold
2010.07.17: Just because the world accumulated enough people
2010.07.17: The loss of serendipity
2010.07.16: Any individual mind is the product of a community of brains
2010.07.16: The knowledge must be of value to others
2010.07.16: A Paralyzing Fear
2010.07.16: It's harder to be kind than clever
2010.07.15: How language affects self-regulation
2010.07.14: Girls too can read . . .
2010.07.13: Eighteen were for burglary and eighteen for forgery
2010.07.13: To the extent of ultimate boredom
2010.07.13: Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages
2010.07.12: What's that? Distinguo?
2010.07.11: An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have
2010.07.10: Ten sentences
2010.07.09: Autism In The Family
2010.07.08: We are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
2010.07.08: Whoosing noise
2010.07.07: A clamorous, perpetual-forward-motion machine
2010.07.07: All having remains no less a preparation for loss
2010.07.07: At the very least you need a beer
2010.07.06: Walt again
2010.07.05: The Aristotelian Principle Revisited
2010.07.05: Got that right
2010.07.04: A minimal level of information is possessed by any normal person
2010.07.03: Exchange is to cultural evolution as sex is to biological evolution
2010.07.03: Selection among ideas
2010.07.03: At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative
2010.07.03: It's like trying to write Paradise Lost in haiku
2010.07.03: There is always a moment in childhood . . .
2010.07.02: You can't write it out, can you?
2010.07.01: In Defence of Rubbish
2010.07.01: Precarious Existence
2010.06.30: He used to say that there was no book so bad that it was not useful at some point.
2010.06.30: Extrasomatic information coded in words, works, and behavioral models
2010.06.29: Indistinguishable from magic
2010.06.28: Creativity and Productivity
2010.06.27: The meaning of intellectual freedom
2010.06.26: American Corpus
2010.06.25: Define: Extrasomatic
2010.06.24: What distinguishes good readers from poor ones is simply . . .
2010.06.23: Word Frequency Lists
2010.06.22: The London of the Enlightenment
2010.06.21: The more laws, the less justice
2010.06.20: What's that? Non angli sed Angeli
2010.06.20: Regular bedtimes linked to better language, reading and math skills in preschool children
2010.06.19: A German view of reading in America
2010.06.18: Don't tread on me
2010.06.17: Define: Reredos
2010.06.16: To read is to translate
2010.06.15: Study hard, study often
2010.06.14: An amalgam that had no single identifiable parent
2010.06.13: Define: Pantile
2010.06.12: Plucked the gowans fine
2010.06.11: Reading, flow, and the Aristotelian Principle
2010.06.10: When your parents instruct you, listen respectfully
2010.06.09: Index of Economic Freedom
2010.06.08: To read is to translate
2010.06.08: Toiling upward in the night
2010.06.07: The information essential to literacy is rarely detailed or precise
2010.06.07: Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling?
2010.06.06: I am the very model of a modern Major-General
2010.06.05: CEO Libraries
2010.06.04: Once storytelling stops, we are dead
2010.06.03: Requires imagining various scenarios and perspectives on the truth
2010.06.02: A remarkable fact that we too easily take for granted
2010.06.01: Blessings on thee, little man . . .
2010.05.31: Can bacteria make you smarter?
2010.05.30: The copycat's whiskers
2010.05.30: General Systems Thinking
2010.05.29: We tend to substitute opinions for thinking
2010.05.28: Reading is productive
2010.05.28: A man writing such history is driving more horses abreast in his team
2010.05.28: So with locusts, so with humans?
2010.05.27: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
2010.05.27: High population density triggers cultural explosions
2010.05.26: Turning Fifty - To Kill a Mockingbird
2010.05.26: Books are no more education than laws are virtue
2010.05.25: We cannot read an author for the first time . . .
2010.05.24: The young brain is remarkably plastic and flexible
2010.05.23: A shabby curate
2010.05.23: He is also a character in our biography
2010.05.22: Charles S. Benson - Books
2010.05.20: There is no substitute for simply knowing these primary associations.
2010.05.20: A mother's touch
2010.05.20: Kids and Family Reading Report
2010.05.19: No man - no human, masculine, natural man - ever sells a book.
2010.05.19: At last . . .
2010.05.18: Plus ca change . . .
2010.05.17: The Decay of Lying
2010.05.16: On Buying Old Books
2010.05.15: In some of our national moods we would like schools to teach everything, but they cannot.
2010.05.14: Such a citizen will, on the contrary, be a sort of universal man
2010.05.13: People who have never troubled to read his books
2010.05.12: Who was the chap who was always beefing about losing gazelles?
2010.05.11: "The Odyssey will tell you an awful lot about human nature and life"
2010.05.10: On the balance between distinctiveness and commonality
2010.05.09: Seen only amidst the lumber of libraries which are seldom visited
2010.05.08: We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.
2010.05.07: Things that ought to be taught and which aren't
2010.05.07: Universal literacy is inseparable from democracy
2010.05.06: A book is a mirror
2010.05.05: Bring order into this multitudinous chaos . . .
2010.05.05: Babies possess certain moral foundations
2010.05.04: I become a thousand people
2010.05.03: Plain speaking in the 1700's
2010.05.02: What's that? All gas and gaiters
2010.05.01: The First of May
2010.04.30: Published in France, by the Jesuits
2010.04.29: The road to education lay through great books
2010.04.28: The usual transmogrification
2010.04.28: Auld lang syne
2010.04.27: Children's books as present in libraries
2010.04.27: The more things change, the more they stay the same
2010.04.26: History as defined by Ambrose Bierce
2010.04.25: Meaningfulness and Mortality
2010.04.25: This Is Just To Say
2010.04.24: Mysterious and unfamiliar
2010.04.24: To wryte and to rede well
2010.04.24: The Neglected Books Page
2010.04.24: If wishes were horses . . .
2010.04.23: Define: yestreen
2010.04.22: Define: Accidie
2010.04.22: That George Orwell
2010.04.21: With his father's sword in his red right hand
2010.04.21: Babies can be rational without being goal-oriented
2010.04.20: There is a pressing need for clarity about our educational priorities
2010.04.20: Where are you creeping with your lame paws?
2010.04.20: And would never be again
2010.04.20: There is constant squabble
2010.04.19: Minds are never to be sold
2010.04.19: An update from the front lines of misery writing
2010.04.18: Why Gen-Y Johnny Can't Read Nonverbal Cues
2010.04.17: None are undeservedly remembered
2010.04.16: Explaining science fiction to women
2010.04.15: The Babees Book
2010.04.14: He has to pretend that he enjoys olives or War and Peace a little more than he actually does
2010.04.13: E.D. Hirsch and Cultural Literacy
2010.04.13: What's that? Rem acu tetigisti.
2010.04.12: An advocate for seredipity in reading
2010.04.11: Building a Better Teacher
2010.04.10: And he who lies late . . .
2010.04.09: High-Aptitude Minds
2010.04.08: The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people
2010.04.07: Define: Odd's boddikins
2010.04.05: He brought the coffin home to substantiate this tale
2010.04.05: "Now, it may not have come under his observation . . ."
2010.04.04: Authorities, however heavily furred and gowned . . .
2010.04.04: Thinking requires raw material
2010.04.03: Someone hit on the notion of making it into a toboggan
2010.04.02: Snail soup
2010.04.01: All the perils of a jungle at night
2010.04.01: Knowing They Know That You Know
2010.03.31: We have to understand the context
2010.03.30: The chief function of literacy is to make us masters of this standard instrument of knowledge
2010.03.29: Where communications fail, so do the undertakings
2010.03.28: A kind of easy-going panache
2010.03.27: Define: Plug-ugly
2010.03.26: Amid the bustle of waiters, the chink of fine silver and the hum of dozens of conversations,
2010.03.26: Children's literature, bad books and ideas
2010.03.26: Poetry, Imagination, and Education
2010.03.25: Define: adventitious
2010.03.24: Rice and Japanese culture
2010.03.23: Thomas the Tank Engine - Crypto-fascist?
2010.03.23: Boy Year
2010.03.22: The poor do not have power
2010.03.22: The fretful porpentine
2010.03.22: New hero
2010.03.22: I saw a dead swollen buffalo once, floating in the Nile
2010.03.21: Life-Changing Books for Scientists
2010.03.20: Cool mackerel-haunted seas
2010.03.19: Humm
2010.03.19: Barbara Tuchman
2010.03.18: The Geneaology of Jack and Jill
2010.03.18: The family is the major source of human inequality in American society
2010.03.17: Books that make you dumb
2010.03.17: Define: glabrous
2010.03.16: Bad art is always with us
2010.03.16: Sounds about right
2010.03.16: The Leisure of an Egyptian Official
2010.03.15: Progress versus Improvement
2010.03.14: A-7 Punch Out
2010.03.14: Half a pound of tea and the poems of Tennyson
2010.03.14: The tales had to be read by children before people realised that they were meant for grown-ups
2010.03.13: The jury fell about laughing
2010.03.12: Humbert Wolfe
2010.03.11: Pasture of knowledge
2010.03.10: The other side of yesterday
2010.03.09: Define: Numinous
2010.03.09: By the middle of the fifth chapter I was able to use a knife and fork
2010.03.08: Life is always more improbable than we can imagine
2010.03.07: What a marvellous accolade
2010.03.06: Henning Mankell interview
2010.03.06: And lastly a bottle of brandy.
2010.03.05: He prefers it that way
2010.03.04: An exo-genetic path of evolution
2010.03.04: The trouble is that it turns out largely to be a fiction
2010.03.03: Newton and that apple
2010.03.02: They were sometimes called "paper bullets."
2010.03.01: Spirit of the 18th century
2010.02.28: The mystery of what sinks in in infancy and what flows by is profound
2010.02.28: Let them eat eggs
2010.02.28: People had moments of not sharing this view
2010.02.28: A Late Beginner
2010.02.27: Teaching - What a tangled web
2010.02.26: Aurea mediocritas
2010.02.25: Let us proceed as if childhood is reclaimable, in some form
2010.02.24: Comics, culture and influence for good or ill
2010.02.23: Memoirs, veracity and Augustine
2010.02.22: Ethiopian Jazz
2010.02.22: A citizen in the country of books
2010.02.21: All the odd Words they have picked up in a Coffee-House
2010.02.20: A giddy and aggressive optimism
2010.02.19: Rousseau the disruptive child
2010.02.18: Childhood was invented in the seventeenth century
2010.02.17: To diffuse books
2010.02.17: The Onset by Robert Frost
2010.02.16: Pugnacious spirit
2010.02.15: All high and noble civilisations are beset with anxiety about their own decadence
2010.02.14: New ways of narrating ancient truths to encompass a larger world
2010.02.14: Miep Gies Obituary
2010.02.13: We explore the past we turned away from
2010.02.13: Everything as being divided by 1.3 billion
2010.02.12: Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh
2010.02.12: For hours - so it seemed - the slow June dusk wore on . . .
2010.02.11: And they found the details of their moral code in sacred texts and history, as well as custom
2010.02.10: The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose
2010.02.09: It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around.
2010.02.09: Inputs affect outputs
2010.02.08: Sound like the blogoshpere of today?
2010.02.08: Inhaling the sweet odors of fruits, spices and gums
2010.02.08: Justice, fairness and privilege
2010.02.08: The things you never knew . . .
2010.02.07: Happiness II
2010.02.06: Addle-pated modernist
2010.02.06: Happiness research
2010.02.05: Pick them up again and tack them on where they were not at all needed
2010.02.04: Herodotus and Chesterton on Travel and Customs
2010.02.03: Jack Corbett Mariner
2010.02.03: Books and Religion
2010.02.03: Define: Mithridatism
2010.02.02: We are a living metaphor
2010.02.02: Turner and the Cayman Trough
2010.02.01: Avoiding the Wide World
2010.02.01: To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought
2010.01.31: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
2010.01.30: We must sail, and not drift
2010.01.30: I remember that I read the feudal play of Henry V for the first time in a loghouse.
2010.01.30: de Tocqueville and reading in America
2010.01.29: Define: Eschaton
2010.01.29: Benefit of Clergy
2010.01.28: What's that? Gone for a Burton
2010.01.27: Benjamin Rush: "Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."
2010.01.27: The blessing of ignorance is the joy of discovery
2010.01.27: The forgotten scandal of the Soviet ape-man
2010.01.26: Single-Handed by C.S. Forester
2010.01.26: Bad faith and critical ingenuity often go hunting together
2010.01.25: Living messages
2010.01.25: The Fleet the Gods Forgot
2010.01.24: Orwell and Huxley
2010.01.24: A disconcerting picture
2010.01.23: Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour
2010.01.23: Exasperation balanced by perspective
2010.01.22: And there you have it . . .
2010.01.22: Hmmm
2010.01.20: Home is the sailor, home from the sea
2010.01.19: Farewell Bruce Alexander
2010.01.19: What's that? cum grano salis
2010.01.19: Define: Feuilleton
2010.01.18: I am the captain of my soul
2010.01.17: Dissipation
2010.01.16: The world is too much with us . . .
2010.01.15: Give a man a book he can read . . .
2010.01.14: So simple . . .
2010.01.13: Define: Chiliasm
2010.01.13: Practice, Persistence and Enjoyment
2010.01.13: Humph
2010.01.12: They also serve who only stand and waite.
2010.01.12: Korinthenkacker
2010.01.11: Horatius at the Bridge by Macaulay
2010.01.11: Horatius at the Bridge
2010.01.11: Upon the rack of this tough world
2010.01.11: Snow Angels
2010.01.10: Blood Oath
2010.01.10: There is a tide in the affairs of reading . . .
2010.01.10: There are reasons for optimism
2010.01.09: Rumour, the swiftest of all evils
2010.01.08: Define: Haruspex
2010.01.07: Death on the Ice
2010.01.06: George Orwell on the intelligentsia
2010.01.03: Think it out
2010.01.03: Montaigne on the dangers of over-interpretation
2010.01.02: America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.
2010.01.01: Trained camels
2009.12.31: A plight unknown to the born reader
2009.12.30: Edith Wharton - The Vice of Reading
2009.12.30: Montaigne on religious conviction
2009.12.29: A vegetarian butcher, eh? Well, it's an interesting business model for a challenging time.
2009.12.29: Memeology?
2009.12.28: He has found something to make him laugh, and he will not suffer it to make him think.
2009.12.28: Define: Polysororal
2009.12.27: Gossamer strands: Dietrich and Kipling?
2009.12.27: If . . .
2009.12.26: Good King Wenceslas
2009.12.24: Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
2009.12.24: Christmas by John Betjeman
2009.12.23: The Kural
2009.12.22: "A self-made widow."
2009.12.22: A little bit of science and reading
2009.12.21: From How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
2009.12.20: Aladdin's Bibliocave
2009.12.19: The Most Failed State
2009.12.19: The authority of a book
2009.12.18: READING DOES NOT CAUSE MYOPIA!
2009.12.18: History Disjointed continued
2009.12.17: First there's the children's house of make-believe
2009.12.16: None of the Above
2009.12.15: History disjointed
2009.12.15: Worth While
2009.12.15: Viewed from a different angle
2009.12.14: Interesting
2009.12.13: The Ransom of Red Chief
2009.12.12: An engineer's brush with the humanities
2009.12.11: Heh
2009.12.09: Be still my heart!
2009.12.08: Will
2009.12.07: Idealists, realists, and politicians.
2009.12.06: Immigration, language and adopted words
2009.12.05: Heartening and sobering
2009.12.04: 500 Reasons
2009.12.03: Roman writers
2009.11.30: In command at twelve years of age . . .
2009.11.28: His job depends on not understanding it
2009.11.27: Not even a theory to cover our nakedness . . .
2009.11.26: but what little there is, is very important
2009.11.25: On Early Rising
2009.11.24: Interview - Terry Pratchett
2009.11.22: The foundation of successful learning is improving executive function
2009.11.21: The Winds of Fate
2009.11.20: A violent South Wind blew upon them
2009.11.20: A commanding sense of duty
2009.11.19: Seems like a good way to spend ones' time
2009.11.19: Back when the government was small . . .
2009.11.19: Translating Beowulf
2009.11.18: We campaign in poetry . . .
2009.11.18: Watch out for the booksellers
2009.11.18: True of many traditions and adages
2009.11.18: He is dying in my poor house . . .
2009.11.17: What was that about the elephant?
2009.11.17: I guess it might be time to reread . . .
2009.11.16: Burma Surgeon
2009.11.16: Final test
2009.11.16: Gross Neglect of Duty
2009.11.15: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
2009.11.14: Against Censorship
2009.11.14: Laugh, and the world laughs with you
2009.11.13: In a universe more and more abstract . . .
2009.11.12: A Klondike wilderness
2009.11.11: "You never say farewell to courage."
2009.11.11: Richard Henry Dana's nostalgia
2009.11.10: "I wish you had read more books."
2009.11.09: How did that happen?
2009.11.09: Talking and Conversing
2009.11.08: The Man Who Was Thursday
2009.11.06: Ooph!
2009.11.01:
2009.10.30: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
2009.10.29: Brett Harte - ". . . at which they silently spat in some accepted sense of social communion"
2009.10.28: If God did not exist, . . .
2009.10.27: The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
2009.10.24: Hmmm
2009.10.21: Extremely Stiff Upper Lip
2009.10.20: The Defiant Ones
2009.10.18: Foreign or ancient phrases to do with books and reading
2009.10.17: Unless a government interferes
2009.10.17: Winter's coming
2009.10.11: Child! do not throw this book about
2009.10.10: Read More, Stay Sentient Longer
2009.10.08: The Preacher
2009.10.06: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
2009.10.02: Interesting juxtaposition
2009.10.01: How we know a dog is a dog . . .
2009.09.30: Breugel and Auden
2009.09.29: Between what matters and . . .
2009.09.28: Don't let the best be the enemy of the good
2009.09.25: The brain is an engineering system
2009.09.24: We live in networks, not communities
2009.09.23: Aldous Huxley
2009.09.22: I Have Tried the Upward and the Downward Slope by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.22: Human exceptionalism
2009.09.21: Bright is the Ring of Words by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.21: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
2009.09.20: Whither Must I Wander by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.19: The Infinite Shining Heavens by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.18: In Dreams by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.17: Youth and Love by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.16: The Roadside Fire by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.16: The Decline of the English Department?
2009.09.15: Let Beauty Awake by R.L. Stevenson
2009.09.15: That I may read, and ride, and plant
2009.09.14: The Vagabond by R.L. Stevenon
2009.09.14: Lust, Vengeance, Exile & Loss
2009.09.14: This day in history - The Battle of Quebec
2009.09.13: Samuel Butler on Dogs
2009.09.12: Chandrapore
2009.09.11: The Night-Wind by Emily Bronte
2009.09.10: Kindness
2009.09.10: Rebel Defoe
2009.09.09: Cicero on Old Age
2009.09.09: Newspapers have been with us for such a long time
2009.09.08: Semper Fi Cervantes
2009.09.07: Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton
2009.09.04: "I'm the 82nd Airborne"
2009.09.03: The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
2009.09.02: Ambrose Bierce - Write it Right
2009.09.01: Russian Sailors
2009.08.31: The Cremation of Sam McGee
2009.08.31: Where's the substance?
2009.08.30: Visiting Charlemagne
2009.08.29: White House Stories
2009.08.28: From the Nothing New Under the Sun Department
2009.08.28: What Should Colleges Teach
2009.08.26: HMS Seraph
2009.08.26: Ferdinand the Submariner Bull
2009.08.25: One of America's Stories
2009.08.24: Burying the Lede
2009.08.19: Chandler and The Simple Art of Murder
2009.08.18: Quotable Chandler
2009.08.16: When stories are the story
2009.08.16: Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
2009.08.10: William Blake
2009.08.10: Jan Morris' A Writer's House in Wales
2009.08.10: It was a dark and stormy night on the California coast
2009.08.08: Jan Morris' A Writer's House in Wales
2009.08.07: Foxe's Book of Martyrs
2009.08.06: The thread of learning
2009.08.05: Y garreg a lef o'r mur
2009.08.04: Exuberant excess as the prelude to progress - Hmm
2009.08.03: Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth
2009.08.02: Li-Young Lee and stories in childhood
2009.08.01: William Blake
2009.07.31: William Blake
2009.07.30: Jan Morris' A Writer's House in Wales
2009.07.22: Mad as the Mist and Snow by W.B. Yeats
2009.07.22: Dave Barry on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
2009.07.21: The First Heroes by Craig Nelson
2009.07.21: Humanity in war
2009.07.20: The Greenland Fishery
2009.07.18: Ultima Thule by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2009.07.16: Mapping Human History
2009.07.14: Books and their readers
2009.07.12: Loganberry Books
2009.07.12: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2009.07.12: Micro-joy
2009.07.09: Department of Trivia
2009.07.07: On Such a Night by Thomas Johnston
2009.07.06: That Al Capone was at the center of a lot of things
2009.07.06: The Virtual Reunification Of Codex Sinaiticus
2009.07.05: Ideas and Life are complements not substitutes
2009.07.04: AC Doyle and Suspicion
2009.07.02: The maker of trash, the barbarian, is less careful to be just.
2009.07.02: Department of Trivia
2009.07.01: Some Parochial Group's Manners
2009.06.30: Messmates by Henry Newbolt
2009.06.28: Seems right
2009.06.28: Maud Muller
2009.06.28: Why do so many people read so little?
2009.06.28: Reading and Desirable Life Outcomes
2009.06.28: Growing a Reading Culture
2009.06.22: We must drink to one Saint more!
2009.06.21: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana
2009.06.21: Shades of Lawrence Durrell's Antrobus
2009.06.21: "The temptation to allow the problem of persuasion to overshadow the problem of knowledge"
2009.06.21: An interesting question
2009.06.19: Saint Augustine on Friendship
2009.06.12: Department of Trivia
2009.06.09: Skipper Ireson's Ride
2009.06.06: Why are the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages
2009.06.05: Department of Trivia
2009.06.03: Looking astern, we saw a small clipper-built brig with a black hull heading directly after us.
2009.06.01: Department of Trivia
2009.05.30: So nigh is grandeur to our dust
2009.05.29: If the Medes darken the sun, we shall have our fight in the shade.
2009.05.29: What have I gotten myself into?
2009.05.28: Department of Trivia
2009.05.28: Heidi is still with us
2009.05.25: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
2009.05.25: Susurrus
2009.05.24: O Captain! My Captain!
2009.05.24: Ross MacDonal on an old house
2009.05.23: Raffles
2009.05.22: On Richard Dana
2009.05.22: Epistemology of Storytelling
2009.05.21: An interesting observation
2009.05.21: Computers or Books?
2009.05.21: Origin and Evolution of Jewish Children's Literature
2009.05.21: The Chaco War
2009.05.21: Dryden
2009.05.13: Self-Control
2009.05.13: That wicked Oscar Wilde
2009.05.13: Desert Copts
2009.05.12: A Late Education
2009.05.12: Precariousness
2009.05.12: Oliver Cromwell
2009.05.11: Books - A life beyond life
2009.05.11: Where do accomplishments come from?
2009.05.11: Richmal Crompton and Frances Hodgson Burnett
2009.03.23: Storytelling by others is powerful source of self-knowledge
2009.03.18: Truman Capote
2009.03.18: Monroeville
2009.03.18: Quite, Almost Too Quiet
2009.02.19: Book Numbers
2009.02.08: Common sense from a lifetime ago
2009.02.05: A Hero and a Paragon
2009.02.03: Ouch and double ouch!
2009.02.03: Plus ca change - Ouch!
2009.01.27: Perspective on controversies
2009.01.26: A hopeful sentiment
2009.01.13: Tintin Turns 80
2009.01.13: Socializing the creature
2009.01.08: TTMD Comunity Members forecast which 2007 books will endure
2009.01.08: Sic transit gloria mundi
2009.01.08: Humanities Indicator
2009.01.02: Awards as forecasts
2008.12.31: Such was Archimedes
2008.12.31: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
2008.12.23: Feline Memoriam
2008.12.20: Sometimes the solution is just waiting to be found.
2008.12.10: The House of Christmas by G.K. Chesterton
2008.11.30: Thunderstruck
2008.11.17: British and American Favorites
2008.11.14: Book Connections
2008.11.06: The power of literature
2008.11.02: Force but no motion
2008.11.02: If you wait long enough
2008.10.31: The Gloomy Academic by Louis MacNeice
2008.10.31: Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
2008.10.30: Falling Down is Part of Growing Up
2008.10.19: The Skippery Boo by Earl L. Newton
2008.10.19: The Happy Family by John Ciardi
2008.10.19: The Song of Mr. Toad by Kenneth Grahame
2008.10.19: On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
2008.10.19: The Panther by Ogden Nash
2008.10.19: The Pobble Who Has No Toes by Edward Lear
2008.10.19: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
2008.10.19: Calico Pie by Edward Lear
2008.10.19: The Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll
2008.10.19: The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
2008.10.19: Father William by Lewis Carroll
2008.10.19: Hearn and Lowell
2008.10.13: What's new is old
2008.09.30: No solution but some worthwhile observations
2008.09.30: Neurology of learning
2008.09.30: Adam Gopnik on Babar
2008.09.30: Insight without illumination
2008.09.30: Insight without illumination
2008.09.24: Books as catalysts
2008.09.24: Anne Frank and library books
2008.09.24: Thomas a Kemp - "I have sought for rest everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a corner with a book."
2008.09.24: How many books does the average child read in a year?
2008.09.24: Reader Testimonials
2008.09.21: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
2008.09.17: The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
2008.09.09: Literacy and language stability
2008.09.03: What is special about reading?
2008.09.03: Reading and crowding
2008.08.28: To Any Reader (RL Stevenson)
2008.08.28: To Alison Cunningham from R.L. Stevenson
2008.08.27: A Drover's Life by Desert Rat
2008.08.27: Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Paterson
2008.08.24: Storytelling as an evolutionary engine
2008.08.14: Reader by Edward Dixon Garner
2008.08.14: Crackers in Bed
2008.08.14: Norman Rockwell
2008.08.06: Pareto is always with us
2008.08.06: Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible . . .
2008.08.05: The Everyday Experience of American Babies
2008.08.05: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
2008.08.05: Not for lack of spending
2008.08.05: What Use is Literacy?
2008.08.05: Toddler Literacy
2008.07.31: The circumstance of Ulysses S. Grants' autobiography
2008.07.31: Biblio-Presidents
2008.07.31: Enduring Works
2008.07.31: Translations
2008.07.30: Blind trails
2008.07.29: Pliny - nullum esse librum tam malum ut non ex aliqua parte prodesset
2008.07.29: Save the Economy - Read to a Child Today
2008.07.24: Reading with children
2008.07.23: WANNA WIN THE NEWBERY? DITCH THE DAD!
2008.07.05: Edwin Muir - One Foot in Eden
2008.07.05: A Recollection of Saki
2008.07.05: Dumas' ghostwriter
2008.07.05: Brueghel's Children's Games
2008.06.29: Herodotus and Ibn Battutah
2008.06.29: Tennyson's Ulysses
2008.06.29: Sophie Masson on Reading
2008.06.29: The Bibliographic mark of having arrived
2008.06.29: Glad to be selling children's books in a country that has children
2008.06.24: Harry Truman anecdotes
2008.06.24: Calendars, Human Nature and Shared Humanity
2008.06.24: New words
2008.06.19: Speaking of learning
2008.06.19: Education, Diversity, Poverty and Culture
2008.06.18: William Fogel and The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700 - 2100
2008.06.18: Ryszard Kapuscinski
2008.06.07: New Yorker articles
2008.06.06: All the circumstances have to be just right
2008.06.06: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
2008.06.05: Limits
2008.05.25: Family Storytelling in the Tropics
2008.05.25: A Flock of Messenger Pigeons
2008.05.23: Churchill on Generals
2008.05.23: Cibber Serendipity
2008.05.23: The Lost Tools of Learning
2008.05.09: Digging Into "What Kids Are Reading"
2008.04.28: "Regrets, I've had a few . . ."
2008.04.28: 'Yes, you've won, Doodie, but I'm not beaten yet!'
2008.04.28: Be Kind to Your Parents
2008.04.26: Basket of pebbles
2008.04.25: Translation - Vitai Lampada
2008.04.25: Vitai Lampada - Henry Newbolt
2008.04.25: Citizenship in a Republic - Theodore Roosevelt
2008.04.22: The Middle Ages
2008.04.11: Judge Learned Hand
2008.04.11: Self-deprecation as an art
2008.04.09: An unfortunate simile
2008.04.08: Continuing with Kipling
2008.04.08: Edward Dixon Garner - Sundown
2008.04.06: Ripley, Surrey, England
2008.04.06: A Child's Eye View of the World
2008.04.04: Ten Perfect Poems
2008.04.02: The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
2008.04.02: Kipling's Poetry - 'with Kipling the culprit is "excessive lucidity."'
2008.03.23: Dover Beach
2008.03.23: Manufactured Memories
2008.03.13: Evocation of a reading child's imagination
2008.03.11: Winston Churchill on Religion
2008.03.10: Alexander Woolcott Gibbs on the judgement of posterity
2008.03.07: Mongrel Grey by 'Banjo' Paterson
2008.03.07: The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson
2008.03.07: Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
2008.03.06: Nevil Shute moment
2008.03.04: Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley
2008.03.04: The Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley
2008.02.28: The Power of NO! - Closing Doors
2008.02.27: The constancy of a bibliophile's love
2008.02.26: Awards as predictors of quality
2008.02.23: Almost too good to believe
2008.02.23: Genius at a discount
2008.02.23: Gotta love those kids
2008.02.13: Peacocks and Pagodas
2008.02.11: Churchill and Free Will
2008.02.11: Churchill and Courteously Rigid Discipline
2008.02.11: Churchill and Harrow
2008.02.11: Churchill's introduction to Latin
2008.02.09: I have no idea why . . .
2008.02.08: Book Bitten
2008.02.08: Measuring Up
2008.02.06: Don't mess with Librarians - "They also abandoned other volumes, later, while fleeing from the librarians."
2008.02.05: Convictions
2008.02.05: Indian Giver
2008.02.05: Just Communicate - Coping with the Caveman in the Crib
2008.01.30: The Ballad of the Alamo
2008.01.30: Libraries, bookstores and the depths of winter
2008.01.28: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig by Charles Lamb
2008.01.24: Favorite Children's Books - UK and USA
2008.01.24: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
2008.01.21: 'If children are to become readers for life, they must first love stories' from Britain
2008.01.21: The Moral Instinct
2008.01.14: Those Icelanders
2008.01.11: Beowulf - What I didn't know
2008.01.11: We'll All Die Game by Johnny Ashcroft
2008.01.11: James Baldwin Quote
2008.01.11: Take the Kids, and Don't Feel Guilty
2008.01.08: Cider with Rosie
2008.01.08: Twilight of the Books
2007.12.29: Adam Smith and children's books
2007.12.24: The Shortest Day
2007.12.23: An orange is not an apple
2007.12.23: The Enduring Mystery of Mrs. Bathurst
2007.12.21: His emotions used his face as a field to play on.
2007.12.20: Checklist for criticism
2007.12.20: Spot on
2007.12.20: South Seas memories
2007.12.19: IQs Rising
2007.12.17: "You mean I don't have to be dumb?"
2007.12.10: The reader's life has pleasures that bookless folk never know
2007.12.09: Archaeolinguistics
2007.12.07: Two Peas in Different Pods
2007.11.28: Mere Oblivion
2007.11.27: The Bibliomaniac's Prayer
2007.11.27: For it was then that I knew I loved reading
2007.11.26: War in the winter
2007.11.26: Best foot forward
2007.11.26: Death of the Bird
2007.11.25: Broadsheets
2007.11.25: One thing leads to another
2007.11.25: Bingen on the Rhine
2007.11.20: A.J. Liebling
2007.11.19: NEA Report on Reading
2007.11.13: "The open destiny of life."
2007.11.13: A moment perfectly captured
2007.11.13: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2007.11.12: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
2007.11.08: When love flourished in M for medical textbooks
2007.11.07: Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Soudan Expeditionary Force)
2007.11.06: Mark Twain
2007.11.04: Novel defense
2007.11.04: Colophons and marginalia
2007.11.02: Nasturtiums
2007.10.31: Socio-geography
2007.10.31: A great ten-step reading program
2007.10.29: Tacitus, Germanic Tribes and Political Correctness
2007.10.28: Kentucky Belle
2007.10.28: Barbara Frietchie
2007.10.28: Molly Pitcher
2007.10.28: Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
2007.10.24: The Charge of the Light Brigade - October 25, 1854
2007.10.24: Ghosts of books past
2007.10.17: John Lloyd Stephens
2007.10.17: Levittown
2007.10.09: HMS Victoria
2007.10.09: The Metaphor by Louis Untermeyer
2007.10.04: The Birkenhead Drill
2007.10.04: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
2007.10.04: On this day in 1865
2007.10.01: He Fell Among Thieves
2007.09.28: Before the Dawn
2007.09.22: The Cutty Sark
2007.09.18: The Sidewalks of New York
2007.09.17: What is a Boy?
2007.09.16: Sampler: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
2007.09.12: George Orwell "Politics and the English Language
2007.09.10: Not much nostalgia for the old days
2007.09.10: Now there's a thank-you
2007.09.10: Sometimes it comes down to luck
2007.09.06: Keeping Perspective
2007.09.06: Home again, home again, jiggety jog
2007.09.05: Plus ça change . . .
2007.08.31: Arabic Apothegm
2007.08.27: Frightening coincidences
2007.08.27: Author and Illustrator Birthdays
2007.08.26: Anecdote: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
2007.08.24: The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches
2007.08.22: Sampler: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
2007.08.19: Look and Learn
2007.08.15: Cinderella's fur slipper
2007.08.13: I must go down to the seas again, the lonely sea . . .
2007.08.07: There is a tide in the affairs of men . . .
2007.08.05: The Blind Men and the Elephant by John G. Saxe
2007.07.30: Mysteries at the Beach
2007.07.24: Contributions from Garner
2007.07.24: Words are to Books as Ordinates are to Maps - Discuss
2007.07.24: Boy Wanted
2007.07.24: Reading Diaspora
2007.07.23: Top Favorite Books by Enthusiastic Readers
2007.07.23: The Reading Mother - Strickland Gillian
2007.07.23: Coincidences - Twice in a Week
2007.07.12: Counting Books
2007.07.09: Founding Father of Book Lists?
2007.07.03: Childhood favorites for Charles Bayless, Management Consultant
2007.07.02: Maintaining standards
2007.07.02: Ancientscripts.com
2007.07.02: Pseudonym finder
2007.06.29: This guy is good . . .
2007.06.26: Well the things you learn. . .
2007.06.21: The Chronicles of Narnia
2007.06.19: Lines from Dashiell Hammett
2007.06.19: Clive James
2007.06.18: Nothing like having the wind taken out of your imperial sails
2007.06.18: As a non-fiction reader I'm not so sympathetic to this research
2007.06.17: RG Herge
2007.06.09: They're creepy and they're kooky
2007.06.01: Words, words, words
2007.05.22: Let there be Light
2007.05.22: The Power of Books
2007.05.22: You are the story you tell

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