Life Sentences: The Grammar of Clickbait!
I Am Here to Take Back the Clickbait. In Three Simple Steps, Find Out How Upworthy Titles Create Cognitive Problems In Readers. But What Happens If You Don’t Click? You Won’t Believe What Happens Next.
18 April (1918): Aldous Huxley to Lewis Gielgud
When we are bald and fat, my dear Lewis, how revolting we shall be…
17 April (1932): Zora Neale Hurston to Ruth Benedict
I wonder if the Dept. or any private individual could be induced to put up a little money for me to go to the Bahamas for a few months. Remember I scarcely scratched the surface there…
16 April (1910): Edith Wharton to Morton Fullerton
It is a cruel & capricious amusement. —It was not necessary to hurt me thus! I understand something of life, I judged you long ago, & I accepted you as you are, admiring all your gifts & your great charm, & seeking only to give you the kind of affection that should help you most, & lay the least claim on you in return…
Ghost Mountain Island Murder MysteryFrom the Print
When beetles crawled out of my mouth, I closed my eyes and let them scuttle away. She stayed near the water. She ran her toe through the sand and watched the water smooth the rut…
15 April (1886): Emily Dickinson to C. H. Clark
Excuse me for the voice, this moment immortal…
Imagined Conversations (4.14.14)
B: Ok, but if we find out you voted—your five fingers? Michele? You might not see them anymore. There is not a shortage of what we can use. Like, Bible. You’ll be like, “Everything was very efficient. I was knocked out for a bit while they looked in my stomach, and was home again a few hours later. Man, was I impressed.”
A: Brutality stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation.
B: No. Brutality, cynicism…those too are civil rights worth fighting for…
14 April (1946): Evelyn Waugh to Randolph Churchill
Whenever ‘Russia’ is spoken they all start guiltily & their spokesman leaps up to say ‘I protest that that question is anti-democratic, irrelevant, fascist, cannibalistic & contrary to the Atlantic charter’…
Review: On Vijay Seshadri's "3 Sections"
Consciousness has caught up with the impossible soul on “the other shore,” the shore that permits, and legitimizes, the imagination, the vehicle of consciousness. Seshadri’s metaphor is doubly apt (if not multiply complex): improbable as it may seem, the imaginary number (i or √−1) regularly surfaces in science and engineering; it is present in the formalisms underlying modern technologies…
11 April (1920): Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry
Yes, my precious, we’ll divide our time between Sussex which is you, and the South of France, which is me, mystically speaking. We shall never saddle ourselves with any big responsibility or large house—but we’ll live beautifully…