Against decluttering: Without a Fight

 “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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Without a Fight 

Saturday, November 04, 2023

'Gave Themselves Without Idle Words to Death'

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Rudyard Kipling was barely twenty years old when he wrote his “Prelude” to Departmental Ditties (1886), which includes these lines: “The ...

Friday, November 03, 2023

'Dictionary of Dead Words'

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How to account for the enduring appeal of clichés ? Why do we snub the riches of our language? I’ve always supposed it was laziness or the a...

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Thursday, November 02, 2023

'The Flowering Shrubs of His Letters'

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To some writers we feel an unbudgeable loyalty that defies critical understanding and even good taste. I can’t defend my love of Sherwood An...

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Wednesday, November 01, 2023

'The Cool Malignity of Iago'

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“As Shakespeare went on, however, he became interested in why people like evil, not for their own advantage but for its own sake.”   In hi...

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

'Adieu! for Once Again the Fierce Dispute'

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Among John Keats’ closest friends was the modestly gifted poet John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852). It was to Reynolds that Keats wrote in a ...

Monday, October 30, 2023

'Only Little People Frightened By the Long Night'

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The calendar and tradition assure us that Halloween is October 31 but the voice of the people in our neighborhood as expressed through the “...

Sunday, October 29, 2023

'We Were Nothing in Ourselves Nothing More'

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“[H]e gave us some of the best poems of our times. And, after all, one must thank a man for what he has done and not condemn him for his fai...