Great is baseball. The national tonic. The reviver of hope. The restorer of confidence.
The Sporting News, 1931 (via @duanexharris)
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We don’t need Proust to tell us that memories connect in unforeseen ways. In my mind there is a scene, distilled from many afternoons browsing these wonderful books amid the family routine. Mom disappears into the kitchen, from which comes the aroma of meatloaf and corn bread. I settle on the rug in front of the TV and pick up Volume 2, with its evocative cover painting of a congregation of sharks and mantas swimming spotlighted under a bathyscaphe. I wander into a survey of Ethiopia until Mom yells that supper is ready. Somehow, as I close Volume 2, other activities surrounding my reading of these books—the mournful whistling that opens Lassie, the food and the steamed windows and David on the sofa with a glass of tea whose ice cubes clink—somehow these memories spiral down into the books, like the genie returning to her bottle in another of my childhood TV programs. They stay there, preserved among paintings and diagrams: a cuttlefish’s three hearts, Caesar’s army in Britain, how levees work.
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The soul learns in spirals, not direct, linear paths.
Sonia Choquette (via paperlover)
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She decided to take a closer look at her competition. Cruz was clearly prolific and successful. She had 42 titles, 41 of which were erotica stories. But one title seemed out of place. It was called Dracula Amazing Adventure. Sharazade, who worked as a college professor, says she felt there was something odd about the ebook. “I took a sentence from the description and put it in between quotes and dropped it into Google, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula came up.” Shar says. “It was word for word Dracula.
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Albino hummingbird!
wordpress.comMy colleague Steve Pruett-Jones called my attention to a remarkable phenomenon: an albino ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris; the only native hummer that breeds east of the Rockies). These photos are from…
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Dennis Loy Johnson, a former academic who is the proprietor of Melville House, a small but innovative publishing firm, wants to reconcile these warring factions. Why should electronic and traditional not collaborate?
“It seems to me that most of us in publishing have been far too quick to look to a print-book-less future,” Mr. Johnson said. “But that’s like saying we don’t need the wheel because someone invented the airplane.”
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