Monthly Archives: January 2020

“For though we say that we know nothing about Shakespeare’s state of mind, even as we say that, we are saying something about Shakespeare’s state of mind. The reason perhaps we why we know so little of Shakespeare– compared with … Continue reading →

Virginia Woolf writing about the greatest writers and greatest minds like Shakespeare– “If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman must also have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge … Continue reading →

scintilla. Meaning trace or flash. O, to have scintillating wit!

A very rare signature by Harris from a 1950 political-history book, that was in his Vancouver home library, which had been given by an author-friend. After 1924, Harris stopped signing anything.

for Harry and Meghan in Canada. Why should Canadian taxpayers have to pay for their personal whim forever?

Old Wayne and Shuster line in their classic sketch”Rinse the Blood off My Toga”, based on Julius Caesar. Trump up to 16, 241 false or misleading claims going into his impeachment trial. Why would anyone trust anything he says?

What with the passing of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes from tv’s 77 Sunset Strip, I went in search of a precious artifact that changed my view of language at an impressionable age. Kookie’s lingo in the brochure was an offshoot of … Continue reading →

The amazing Emily Dickinson who wrote the most compact metaphorical poetry in English. She showed that a woman writer needed no one else but her imagination to bless her own work. She is the supreme spirited poet of the dark … Continue reading →

The first 5 CDs of the Telemann Edition boxset played by Canada’s Tafelmusik. Elegant, tasteful, and confident.

High-mindedness. Courtesy. Common Sense. Cautiousness. Serious thinking. Significant consciousness, especially involving an appreciation of context and empathy.