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  • I think this is meant as resembling work by the Bronze Age Cycladic people -- ancient, white, stone

    January 19, 2010

  • "Crickets creaking trills so loud we had to raise our voices, even on the beach down from the cycladic wall under the yellow spongy dry scrub with spiky stars of flowers." "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport

    January 19, 2010

  • "This trail was blazed back in the century's teens by a knickerbockered and tweed-capped comitatus from Yale, carrying on a tradition from Raphael Pumpelly and Percy Wallace and Steel MacKaye, from Thoreau and Burroughs: a journey with no purpose but to be in the wilderness, to be in its silence, to be together deep among its trees and valleys and heights." "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport

    January 19, 2010

  • "We had provender for a fortnight in the wilderness. . ." "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport

    January 19, 2010

  • "The sampan pilot from Siogama to Ishinomaki, the postman galloping from Kyoto to Ogaki, what do they travel but time?" from "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport

    January 19, 2010

  • from Tate Collection website: "The term ‘flenite’ used in the title was invented by Jacob Epstein to refer to the flinty hardness of the stone used, actually a material called serpentine."

    http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=4124

    January 19, 2010

  • "Sat on the floor at Hulme's widow's while he talked bolt upright in his North Country farmer's body and stuttered through his admiration and phlegmatic defense of Epstein's flenite pieces, so African as to be more Soninke made than Soninke derived. . ." from "The Bowmen of Shu" by Guy Davenport

    January 19, 2010

  • related to a stream or river

    from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    also from from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Fun fact: this adjective (meaning "yielding") is only used to modify air.

    July 19, 2009

  • the sapwood (newer, softer wood between the heartwood and the bark)

    from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • on the near side of the Atlantic

    from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, probably meaning sycamore

    July 19, 2009

  • from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • natives, or originals

    from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    July 19, 2009

  • Irish term for 1812 revolutionaries

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for outlaws

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for Protestant insurgents

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for cottage dwellers

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for members of the Catholic Ribbon Society

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for the bare-legged

    January 11, 2009

  • Irish term for peasants

    January 11, 2009

  • shock of rags

    January 11, 2009

  • Scottish term for beggars

    January 11, 2009

  • what we now refer to as "the Romantics"--esp. Byron

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • an intellectual salon-type thing

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • sarcastic term for the English Dandy type

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • mean term for someone with bad eyesight OR used figuratively for one who lacks intellectual perception

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • hypnotism

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • cuckoo fish?

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • bright or smiling character

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • the year of life, usually figured to be the 63rd, supposed to be especially critical

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • excessively minute or subtle

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • old form of "Tahitian"

    from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • never could find out what this means. from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"

    January 11, 2009

  • sensation felt by a hand placed on the body, feeling the vibration caused by speech

    October 8, 2008

  • from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow.

    October 1, 2007

  • from the Ring and the Book.

    October 1, 2007

  • from the Ring and the Book.

    October 1, 2007

  • from the Ring and the Book.

    October 1, 2007

  • from the Ring and the Book.

    October 1, 2007

  • from the Ring and the Book. a lovely word for an urchin.

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • an awkward, clumsy fellow. from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch, the political subplot. Short for "plumper votes," plumpers were votes for just one candidate, when the ballot asked them to choose 2.

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch, of course, since it has to do with duty. Farebrother is the one suffering from laches. This is just a few paragraphs from the excellent sentence, "But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly--something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Middlemarch

    October 1, 2007

  • from Ruskin.

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope. I love this one.

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope

    October 1, 2007

  • from Trollope

    October 1, 2007

  • from Louisa May Alcott's "An Old Fashioned Girl."

    October 1, 2007

  • deal here means pine or fir wood

    April 2, 2007

  • a piece of 19th century women's clothing, a little cape

    March 28, 2007

  • I read this recently in a letter from John Ruskin, a lovely put-down to art critics he found ignorant.

    February 11, 2007

  • I first saw this word used by RW Emerson: "Nature says--he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefts, he shall be glad to see me."

    December 26, 2006

  • I first saw this in an RW Emerson metaphor. "Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man."

    December 26, 2006