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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
| Time |
Event |
| 5:26a |
QotD
From the
Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-29:
"All the difficulties of the original are here faithfully
reproduced. A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and
expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of
comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge,
crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up,
poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so
many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its
relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and
proving finally to have been in the accusative case." -- E. M.
Forster, discussing the writing style of Marcel Proust.
(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk) | | 6:37a |
The Republicans' Next Rhetorical Joe Okay, this is not exactly the progression I had expected
in Republican examples of people named 'Joe' whose values to
follow: (Note: not from McCain/Palin
-- another Republican.) Now, is this someone who
failed to learn her history and accidentally stumbled in the
direction of repeating it, or someone who did learn from
history and really wants to repeat it? |
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