MW Now the relation subsisting between the Pilot fish above mentioned and their huge ungainly lord, seems one of the most inscrutable things in nature. At any rate, it poses poor me to comprehend. That a monster soferocious, should suffer…
Month: March 2021
Zamyatin and Huxley through Orwell’s eyes
In Freedom and Happiness (The Orwell Foundation), Orwell writes about Zamyatin‘s We and Huxley’s Brave New World. Orwell finds that Huxley’s novel must have been “derived” from Zamyatin’s and that Zamyatin’s view is more pertinent to our times. We is…
Tutelary
MW Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not onely whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church…
Felicitate, Felicitated, Felicitating
Sir, I am made of the self mettle as my sister,And prize me at her worth. In my true heartI find she names my very deed of love;Only she comes too short, that I professMyself an enemy to all other…
Words of the Day: March 5 – March 9 2021, Abhor Impunity Meticulous Pivot Luminary
Merriam-Webster: March 5: Abhor And out of dust reduce our scattered rimes,Th’reiected iewels of these slouthfull times,Who with the Muses would mispend an hower,But let blind Gothish Barbarisme deuoureThese feuerous Dogdayes, blest by no record,But to be euerlastingly abhord. Author…
War, Folk, Lord or Men, Hall, Battle?
Beowulf is one of the most important works of Old English literature. Maria Dahvana Headley, translator of Beowulf, tells us that it is both prudent and enjoyable to read more than one translation of the poem, for when it comes…
Contaminate and Uncontaminate
MW I can well compare hym to Dauid, which though he were a man elect of God, yet for that he was contaminate with bloud and warre, he could not build the temple of Ierusalē, but left the finishing therof…
Rabbity
Sometimes, in the distance one sees a black-and-white peasant riding lonely across a more open place, a tiny vivid figure. I like so much the proud instinct which makes a living creature distinguish itself from its background. I hate the…
Salem Witch Trials in Beaumont’s Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices, 1705
John Beaumont, a physician and geologist with an interest in the occult and witchcraft, published An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices in 1705. Explore his account of the events in Salem through…
Gazette
MW I cannot deny that as every Gazette gave us some accounts of the conquests and victories of this glorious prince, it prepossessed my thoughts with secret wishes of seeing him, but these were so young and unsettled, that I…