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Makes You What You Are
Happy Et Tu, Brute Day A Girl of the LimberlostGene Stratton Porter “With a whole sky-full of worlds on His hands to manage, I’m not believing that He has time to look down on ours, and pick you out of all the millions of us sinners, and set a special kind of torture to eating Continue reading
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Illegal Daisies
Happy Pi Day The Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy A seer’s spirit took possession of Elizabeth, impelling her to sit down by the fire and divine events so surely from data already her own that they could be held as witnessed. She followed Lucetta thus mentally–saw her encounter Donald somewhere as if by chance–saw him wear Continue reading
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Primitive As Can Be
It’s barely 8 hours since I got yesterday’s posted just in time. Here’s to being back on schedule Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe I had on a broad belt of goat’s skin dried, which I drew together with two thongs of the same instead of buckles, and in a kind of a frog on either side of Continue reading
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Acts 16:25-26
I need to not put off doing these in the morning before I start my day, I nearly let this one slip my mind. At least the one time I had forgotten to publish until the next morning the draft was already finished. Silas MarnerGeorge Elliot But Miss Nancy had no sooner made her curtsy Continue reading
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Cold Water will Wave you Goodbye
Getting this in before the day ends. The MoonstoneWilkie Collins “Why have you come up herer, Godfrey?” she asked. “Why didn’t you go into the library?” He laughed softly, and answered, “Miss Clack is in the library.” “Clack in the library!” She instantly seated herself on the ottoman in the back drawing-room. “You are quite Continue reading
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NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!
Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassAn American SlaveWritten by Himself I have now reached a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael’s, in March, 1832. It was now more than seven years since I lived with him in Continue reading
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Идіотъ
The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky [trans. Eva Martin] It was seven in the evening, and the prince was just preparing to go out for a walk in the park, when suddenly Mrs. Epanchin appeared on the terrace. “In the first place, don’t dare to suppose,” she began, “that I am going to apologize. Nonsense! You were entirely Continue reading
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Roll On
This book has my favorite example of irony in American Literature. This random out-of-context selection is not it, however. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain They swarmed up towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to Continue reading
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Empty Larder Days
Getting through our first week of March Oliver TwistCharles Dickens This dialogue was held between the two men who had surprised the burglars, and a travelling tinker who had been sleeping in an outhouse, and who had been roused, together with his two mongrel curs, to join in the pursuit. Mr. Giles acted in the Continue reading
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Lunatic in the Rain
The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins “I shall talk of something else presently. My good friend, you are on the edge of your domestic precipice, and if I let you give the women one other chance, on my sacred word of honour they will push you over it!” “What the devil do you mean?” “We will Continue reading
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