“Yet there are many who have certainly and directly taught me admiration, and yes, I do read them again and again. I have a Horace upstairs and a Horace down; last summer I read Homer right through in the warm evenings out of doors, with a female black redstart fluttering angrily about my head because I read under the light that was her usual perch; and indoors I have a set of Jane Austen, all early editions for the added delight of immediacy, that I very often consult and rarely put down in less than an hour.”
“[O’Brian’s] work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.”
O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but noted novelists (Mary Renault wrote, “Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them. Mr. O’Brian does not…
(“I had been reading naval history for years and years, and I knew a fair amount about the sea: I wrote the tale in little more than a month, laughing most of the time.”) The novel is a lark, and had, as its author later noted, “pleasant consequences.”…
“(“I had been reading naval history for years and years, and I knew a fair amount about the sea: I wrote the tale in little more than a month, laughing most of the time.”) The novel is a lark, and had, as its author later noted, “pleasant consequences.” Among those are the now seventeen volumes of the Aubrey-Maturin series, which are in many languages, including Japanese, and are justly famed.”
Earlier, in the wicious pride of my youth, I sometimes threw myself into postures, imitating writers I admired and producing a certain amount of Proust and water (the recipe for the Avignon lark pâté comes to mind: one lark, one horse) to Joyce and very…
If you’re early enough, u can catch the poppies still getting out of their nightclothes. #gardens #flowers #Vermont (at Le jardin)
Big poppy. W a special #garden hello to @adamslisa. (at Le jardin)
At least we got that figured out (at North Branch Nature Center)
Held: A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely…
Held: A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated.
The Supreme Court of the United States decides the Myriad gene-patenting case. Here’s the decision. Lots of coverage to come.
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From Today’s Times: Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor With Educators:
Though the issue is one of the most frequently studied by education scholars, there is little consensus about grouping’s effects.Some studies indicate that grouping can damage…
John Hawks is Pissed | Neuron Culture
