Treasures
“I hear an army charging upon the land;” at MIT, a group of students have put Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes project online, including James Joyce’s remarkable poem.
“What pure motives, and purely carried out:” My Life in Books has been reading Willkie Collins’ The Moonstone. You should read it, too.
Remember my itty bitty jab at Mark Bauerline’s “Dumbest Generation” argument? Good times. Well, Lauren Yingling has taken the man right down to the mat: “Bauerlein says we shouldn’t trust anyone under 30. More accurately, we shouldn’t trust anyone over 30 …”
“Nature in its varied forms arrived punctually and dramatically to inform the human state of things, to allow the literal to resonate unto the metaphorical:” Wyatt Mason on disasters in fiction and disastrous fiction.
Roger Ebert has a true love, and it is the Studebaker ‘57 Golden Hawk “In profile, the graceful fenders curving down to the headlights, The windshield raked back in harmonious counterbalance. Then the slant of the roof, leading down to the uprising of the bold fins. Musical. You could sing it.”
And he does.
