Merry Christmas
Posting resumes in January, until then celebrate the season by re-rediscovering the rediscovered manuscript.
Posting resumes in January, until then celebrate the season by re-rediscovering the rediscovered manuscript.
Posting resumes in January, until then celebrate the season by re-rediscovering the rediscovered manuscript.
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The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and exte...
why is that photo flipped upon its horizontal axis? Perhaps, from now on, the reversed horizontal axis should be known as the "Whitby Axis"?
ReplyDeleteI forgot the r in american in the above comment. feudian slip or what!
ReplyDeleteWhy not? In fact, I think any sort of inversion might be so described, as Whitby is a hub of inversion.
ReplyDeleteSome claim the real Whitby Axis is something else (though not to my taste, it wouldn't be Christmas without fruitcake):
"Many observers have pointed out that a mass of Ley lines all converge at Whitby. Ley lines are associated with carrying all kinds of psychic energy"
Actually that image is reversed because it's a negative.
Merry Christmas Van C.
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