I was reminded of the power of ideology this week watching footage released by the police concerning the murder of the teenager Henry Nowak in the English port city of Southampton
Continued study of Passato Rimoto and a lot of vocabulary on asking and giving directions.
The men of the English Renaissance prided themselves on their rationality and their freedom from the barbarous superstitions of the Middle Ages
One common type of irregular adjective and two oddballs.
Here are three poems–I may add one or two more–of William Butler Yeats that show the influence of his lifelong interest in the occult.
I was so flabbergasted at the turn of events that I’ve sent in a photograph with today’s copy to quash any misgivings.
You know you are living in an ideological tyranny, when……Please fill in the blanks. I’ll start with a few.
Those moments I attempted to capture here last week did actually flash through my mind when the quake hit, but now I thought, why not keep going?
These are several poems of Ernest Dowson (1867-1902). Everyone who has any knowledge of English verse is familiar with his most famous poem, “Cynara,” which has suffered the indignity of being quoted in O’Neil’s play “Long Day’s Journey” and parodied by Cole Porter.
We had a respectable earthquake here last night, 6.1 with the epicenter in Calabria, and the house swayed like a house of cards.
