Jacques Barzun ( born on 30 November 1907) was a French-American historian, teacher and a philosopher of education Three quotes on teaching: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a… Read More Teaching
There are two documents that record the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne but they are dissimilar. On 28 November 1582 a 40-pound bond was paid to the Bishop of Worcester to obtain William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway’s marriage license (see here). It was a sworn statement which confirmed that there were were no impediments… Read More The Confusion about Shakespeare’s Marriage
28 November 1582 was a Sunday, just like today, and it was on that day that William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid a 40-pound bond for their marriage licence as surety that there were no impediments to the marriage It was the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester that issued the licence allowingthe marriage… Read More Shakespeare’s Marriage
Yesterday one of Upton Sinclair‘s quotes was about toilet paper. Here are a few others on the same lofty topic: 🧻“Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.” (Woody Allen) 🧻“I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster… Read More Toilet Paper🧻
Upton Sinclair (who died on 25 November 1968) was a prolific American author and political activist who devoted his writing career to exposing his view of the injustices of capitalism and the devastating effects of poverty among the working class. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon… Read More Needs
Come sono leggera!Lontani gli orroridi quella che un tempocredevo passione sincera.Sul pavimentouna macchia sempre più rossae sul pettoc’è un papavero che s’ingrossa. Chi verrà a pulire?Sarà chi non ha voluto ascoltarela violenza da cui volevo fuggire?Ancor oggi l’avevo progettato:avevo messo uno strato di truccosul volto ammaccatoe scarpe adatte alla fugada chi un tempo avevo amato.… Read More Una di meno 👠
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans In 1857, when she was 37 years old , Mary Ann Evans started to use her pen name George Eliot when she published in Blackwood’s Magazine the three stories later included in “Scenes of Clerical Life”.In a letter… Read More The Man Who Claimed To Be George Eliot
Two Lovers Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:They leaned soft cheeks together there,Mingled the dark and sunny hair,And heard the wooing thrushes sing.O budding time!O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept:The bells made happy carolings,The air was soft as fanning wings,White petals on the pathway slept.O pure-eyed bride!O tender pride! Two faces… Read More True Love
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”(from the novel Middlemarch) George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, born on 22 November 1819.She was a Victorian era English poet and novelist who chose that male pseudonym to conceal her gender so that people would take… Read More George Eliot
Sunday Afternoon in Italyby D. H. Lawrence The man and the maid go side by side With an interval of space between; And his hands are awkward and want to hide, She braves it out since she must be seen. When some one passes he drops his head Shading his face in his black felt… Read More Sunday Afternoon in Italy
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