In which I reflect on the name I gave to my youngest son, linking him back to the kindly Uncle Toby in “Tristram Shandy.”
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Tag Archives: Tobias Wilson-Bates
Sterne’s Uncle Toby and My Own Toby
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Kindness", "We Are Seven", Book of Tobit, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, William Wordsworth Leave a comment
Sad Thoughts in Early Spring
A guest post on Wordsworth’s “Lines Written in Early Spring” from Tobias Wilson-Bates to celebrate the official start of spring.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Spring", “Lines Written in Early Spring", William Wordsworth Comments closed
My Son, Second Generation Lit Blogger
In which I praise my son’s second generation literary blogging.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged blogging, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Christmas Carol, Goblin Market, John Milton, Lycidas Comments closed
No, A.I. Will Not Change How We Read Lit
Will A.I. change how people read lit, as this New Yorker article claims? Uh, no.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged artificial intelligence, Bleak House, Bluesky, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Joshua Rothman, Philip Pullman, Richard Hugo, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andy Beckett, climate change, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frankenstein, Greg Olear, Italian Futurism, Macbeth, Mary Shelley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., William Shakespeare Comments closed
Final (?) Toby Literary Tweets
Comc literary tweets from Tobias Wilson-Bates
The Ten Best Brit Poems of 1800s
My Victorianist son shares his top ten 19th century British poems.
Comic Twitter from a Master
More comic tweets by my favorite master of the medium (i.e., my English professor son)
Literary Tweeting
Comic tweets by my favorite master of the twitterverse.