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Dr. Cornell West on James Baldwin, Bernie Sanders and the youth

Oh, and of course, the Blues.

Bernie Sanders: the Democracy Now! interview

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“His Epistle I expected any time these three years. . .”: the words R. B. McKerrow had to hide to perpetrate his ludicrous ‘Lichfield’ lie.

“His Epistle I expected any time these three yeares”. Nine words that open the sentence the late and highly influential Shakespearean editor, R. B. McKerrow, chose (unbelievably) to hide—in a sentence he quotes from twice—in order to directly attribute the surrounding text to a random, unheard of, Cambridge barber.

John Brown and the flag. And John Brown who sang.

John Brown always gets flattened out into an icon. He understood how easily he could become iconic and used that to its fullest, but we keep stripping him of his humanity, and it is his humanity that made him great. Without that, the rest never would have been.

A BEATLE DIDN’T SAY THAT! Lewisohn’s lab-created quotes

*REPOST OF THE ORIGINAL TROUBLE-STARTER.* “My personal standard is that If someone represents, ‘A Beatle said this,’ it better damn well be something a Beatle said.”

Who told Lady Catherine??

Who sent Lady Catherine on her wild ride to Longbourn? I always say that Jane Austen never plants a question in our heads without giving us the answer, and she continues to prove me right.

“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” – Rereading the Turning Point Conversation between Elizabeth Bennet and Colonel Fitzwilliam

Elizabeth’s blush when she says that distance isn’t a problem if money is no object. Even her feigned coolness when she tells Col Fitzwilliam that she’s surprised Darcy doesn’t marry for the convenience of a built-in travel buddy, all take on new shape.

  • On Jane Austen and “Emma”
  • The Beatles and MARK LEWISOHN
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