Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Is Twitter Headed for Bleak House?
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Jean Valjean, Good Samaritan
“Les Misérables” features two of literature’s great Good Samaritan figures.
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Help! My Mom’s Having Trouble Reading
In today’s post I seek advice for a woman who wants to keep reading but has had a stroke.
Sickness Strikes Again
I my recent bout with Covid, passages from “Heart of Darkness” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” came to mind.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Heart of Darkness, Illness, Joseph Conrad, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comments closed
Inheriting My Mother’s Poetry Column
My mother having been incapacitated by a series of strokes, I will be taking over her poetry column in the local newspaper.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Song for St. Cecilia's Day", John Dryden, poetry columns, Sewanee Mountain Messenger Comments closed
Holding America to Its Ideals
Whitman and Hughes, together, remind us of the American promise.
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The False God of Christian Nationalists
Christian nationalists, as Milton would note, worship power, not the god of love.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Androcles and the Lion, Christian nationalism, George Bernard Shaw, John Milton, Paradise Regained Comments closed
