If Melville depended upon the Western epics to augment his adventure and provide the language-stimulus for his own literature, Wilde, like Emily Dickinson, seems to have needed no adventure at all, only reading. Many novice old-timers get ensnared in that fallacy, confusing their having had a full life with their ability to write a fully functional novel, while whippersnappers of every ilk spend a summer in the Orient because they believe that being in an interesting place will make them interesting people.
It does not. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons. A Stroll Around the World. They are inescapable. They are without a doubt the defining artifacts of our civilization.
They have reshaped our minds in ways that we long ago ceased thinking about. Too much work has gone into them.
Selling That New-Man Feeling. John E. Morley, the director of endocrinology and geriatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. But that fad ended quickly after one well-known surgeon implanted goat testicles into his patients, where they apparently emitted a noxious odor. He promptly forgot about it. McMansions Are Making a Comeback. By last year, the size of the median new single-family home hit a record high of 2, square feet, surpassing the peak of In Defense of a Loaded Word.
This was not how I described the outing to my family. Right vs. Left in the Midwest. A Most Expensive Book. In the United States, more than a thousand bookstores closed between and Borders, which owned more than 1, bookstores in , shut the doors to the last of them in Public libraries in nearly every state have suffered budget cuts. Most have reduced hours and services; others have sold off books. Some libraries have merged; others have privatized.
