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Maureen Dowd on "Downton Abbey" (yesterday's online NY Times) — "Watching the saga from the beginning this week, I saw the extent of the subversive fantasy: The servants rule…
"The first credential we should demand of a critic is his ideograph of the good." – Ezra Pound, How to Read A spoiler from the 1974 novel in last…
A review… 1. Of posts a year ago today 2. Of posts from last year's Valentine Day A preview… "It is time to tell you of Faith and…
The first story of "The Snow Queen, in Seven Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) (see yesterday morning)— Story the First, Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments…
"I'm sorry to be catechizing you like this." — The girl in "What Dead Men Tell," by Theodore Sturgeon Q — "Why walk when you can fly?" — Mary…
"… the human will cannot be simultaneously triumphant and imaginary." — Ross Douthat, Defender of the Faith, in this afternoon's New York Times at 3:25* PM…
(Continued)… The Snow Queen.
And for Scarlett — A Venus Flytrap From last evening's John Fogerty 1984 video — From this morning's paper — Click the soup for some backstory. "Assume a can opener."
Wikipedia on a Springsteen album released on this date in 1973— "… when Columbia Records president Clive Davis heard the album, he felt that it lacked a hit single….
… que cantaba el rey David. Update of 7 AM Jan. 5— See also Endor's Game.