Happy Day, EB White!
“With some writers, style not only reveals the spirit of the man but reveals his identity, as surely as would his fingerprints.” EB White, from ‘The Elements of Style”.
TS Eliot Knew: Lots of Information Without Enough Knowledge
From 1920 (pre-internet): The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little […]
Leviathan: “… if they refuse to hear proof, refuse to do justice.”
For all judges, sovereign and subordinate, if they refuse to hear proof, refuse to do justice: for though the sentence be just, yet the Judges that condemn without hearing the proofs offered are unjust judges and their presumption is but prejudice…In like manner, in ordinary trials of right, twelve men of the common people are […]
Dick The Butcher & The J6 Committee
[Aside] He was an honest man, and a good bricklayer. It was not his most famous line from Henry VI, Part 2, but at least it’s a positive contribution to the plot. In the end, we want people to like and respect us. Reputation is an important – but not the only – thing. These are […]
“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty”
This Keats quote made me think of something I posted a year ago. Lawyers’ war stories typically revolve around raucous and sometimes hilarious exaggerations (or not) of tumult and upset: epic fits and crying jags … confusion or hysterical screaming, crying, or babbling … horrifying threats and recriminations. All the better when those are punctuated […]
Happy West Virginia Day!
I originally posted this on Feb. 18, 2018, titled “The Post Horn”. For here were God knew how many citizens, deliberately choosing not to communicate by US Mail. It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. […]
Happy Bloomsday!
yes I said yes I will Yes. James Joyce, Ulysses
Days of Graduation
Friday morning, I was sitting in Pauley Pavilion at UCLA surrounded by thousands of parents for a graduation ceremony (the first of three that day). I’d forgotten how essential these rituals can be. The floor of the stadium was filled with students from the various schools and disciplines who – during their years in college […]
Hello, Cleveland!
Passing through on my way to L.A., means I don’t have to go out of my way to avoid the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Except for the ubiquitous marketing everywhere for that mockery of rock music. Don’t get me started on the bands and artists still waiting to get in. #WarrenZevon #JethroTull #Slayer
Happy Day, Angelo Moriondo (inventor of the espresso machine)!
The next time you order an espresso from your local cafe and it arrives in less than five minutes, thank Angelo Moriondo. Google honors Angelo Moriondo, espresso machine inventor, with coffee-stained Doodle