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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Tucson.
06-May-12Picacho Peak, Arizona.
06-May-12how to buy neurontin online Taken near the top. The peak rises very impressively from the desert. It appears to be a volcanic plug, like Shiprock or Devil’s Tower. Even the trail to the top climbs at an 80-degree incline at times, and you hoist yourself up with metal cables. This is from the not-so-steep side, where the trail is; […]
Merrie Olde England.
06-May-12A nice interview about the ever-interesting 18th century. The most remarkable thing to my eyes: We have very good data on births outside marriage and births within seven months of marriage, which is a pretty good indicator of people having had sex before marriage. These are aggregate statistics covering the whole [of England], and show […]
New York City.
06-May-12A whole bunch of gobsmacking old photos of New York City.
It seems to be provable even in a lab.
Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture is online and well worth the few minutes it takes to read. Berry almost always feels distinct from other writers; his thinking has integrity (Latin integritas, “wholeness”). He begins somewhere near the beginning, and so his thoughts feel rooted. He is aware that a human life is transmuted food – an astonishing […]
Lucretius, Poggio, Greenblatt, Grafton.
03-May-12A nice review, intelligently written as always, by Tony Grafton of Stephen Greenblatt’s book on the discovery of Lucretius by my favorite humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio struck me from the first time I encountered him in the form of his deeply sympathetic and humane letter describing the sadistic and dishonorable burning of Jerome of Prague […]