Saturday, June 21, 2014

Summer2014: Here's to finding "Jeweled balm for the battered spirit"

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Ada Louise Huxtable We are passing through the magical force field...
              

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Bloomsday 2014: The Polyphony of James Joyce's Dubliners

This year's Bloomsday, Monday, June 16,  is seeing a worldwide salute to Jame Joyce's more accessible work, Dubliners, which was published 100 years ago on  June 15, 1914, just months before The Great War would ignite. It is a sobering thought that Joyce finished writing the stories when...
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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Jubilate Subtervia: Happy 110th, NYC Subway System

 The MTA is celebrating the subway system's 110th birthday today with a party with cake at the New York City Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights. I wrote a birthday post for the system's 106th b-day. For I will consider the New York Subway System (For you English majors out there, this is based...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Utah. Omaha. Gold. Juno. Sword. 70 Years Hence.

How awesome do you have to be to wade through water and walk directly into enemy gunfire? How much courage does it take to jump out of a plane into enemy gunfire, where you are as likely to die getting caught in a tree, or a church roof, like in Sainte-Mere Eglise. Reading Twitter from 12:30 am...
              
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