A life in words

  • Did you know…

    That one of the main themes in the soundtrack from The Hudsucker Proxy comes from the adagio from Spartacus? Neither did I.

  • ¿Y México? ¡Se fue!

    Some seemingly bad news: my trip to Mexico has been canceled on account of insufficient applicants. Not enough people going means the trip would have been prohibitively expensive. Sad, huh! Now what do I do? I don’t know. Do I look for a different program out of the country? Or try to find some classes…

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    I just listened to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge while reading along. An impressive poem! Download the audio book and view the complete text with notes if you want to. Here’s a notable little excerpt: O sweeter than the marriage-feast, ‘Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the…

There is nothing I dread so much, as a division of the Republic into two great Parties, each arranged under its leader and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This in my humble apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 Oct 1780