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Anthony Burgess T.S.Eliot W.H.Auden From The Best American Poetry Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent (1966), his satire of espionage novels, bears a double epigraph. The first is from W. H. Auden: << But between the day and night The choice is free to all, and light Falls equally on black and white. >> The second is from T. S. Eliot: << The worst that can be said of most of our malefactors, from statesmen to thieves, is that they are not men enough to be damned . >>

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) , is a letter in the Old English , Old Norse , and Icelandic alphabets , as well as some dialects of Middle English . It was also used in medieval Scandinavia , but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Fuþark , called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs (" giant ") in the Scandinavian rune poems , its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name being Thurisaz . It has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative [θ], like th as in the English word thick , or a voiced dental fricative [ð], like th as in the English word the . Modern Icelandic usage excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth (Ð, ð), though it has a voiceless allophone [θ], which occurs in certain positions within a phrase. In its typography , the thorn is one of the few characters in a Latin-derived alphabet whose modern lower-case form has greater height than the capital in its normal (...

Think of it like this. Every local radio and television station has its own tag, one dictated by distance from NYC which has the canonical, One True Tag. The further you drive from NYC the more the tags diverge: the pitches diverge; the tempos shift; the instrumentation changes. In some dusty little town in Nebraska the result is a terrible cacophony, Gamelan played in a razor wire factory. For you in your Lexus, driving NYC to LA there is a pleasant predictability to all this. You can gauge your travel distance by how horrible the tag is and how you can be content that you won't have to listen to it for too long anyway, For those who live in those economically broken towns in flyover country the tags are a nightmare. Here predictability breeds not contentment but rage. Contentment without predictability is more easily understood, at least by some of us, some of the time. Being on a train in Turkey while being resigned to seemingly capricious stops and delays. Being on a plane ...

Robert Greene was baptized in Norwich 1 on July 11, 1558. 2 He died in London, September 3, 1592. Of the life that extended between these dates there is little of actual record. On November 26, 1575, Greene was matriculated as a sizar at St. John's Cambridge. From that college he received his primary degree in 1578. 3 In 1583, July 7, he was at Clare Hall, 4 where he was granted the degree of Master of Arts. Sometime in 1585 or '86 he was married. Oxford conferred a degree in July, 1588; so that he was henceforth the Academiae Utriusque Magister in Artibus of which he was so vain. "Hee inherited more vertues than vices," says Nashe again. "Debt and deadly sinne, who is not subject to? with any notorious crime I never knew him tainted." ... "A good fellowe he was;" considerable of a drinker. "Hee made no account of winning credite by his workes, ... his only care was to have a spel in his purse to conjure up a good cuppe o...

The facts I have discovered, which lead up to the conclusions, can be verified for the most part on an inch to mile ordnance map with aid of a straight edge. Taking all the earthworks mentioned, add to them all ancient churches, all moats and ponds, all castles (even castle farms), all wayside crosses, all cross roads or junctions which bear a place name, all ancient stones bearing a name, all traditional trees (such as gospel oaks), marked on maps, and all legendary wells. Make a small ring round each on a map. Stick a steel pin on the site of an undoubted sighting point, place a straight edge against it, and move it round until several (not less than four) of the objects named and marked come exactly in line. You will then find on that line fragments here and there of ancient roads and footpaths, also small bits of modem roads conforming to it. Extend the line into adjoining maps, and you will find new sighting points on it, and it will usually terminate at both ends...

    Tipu's Tiger, c.1790 (wood) by Indian School, (18th century). Made for the amusement of Sultan Tipu (1749-99); the tiger has a miniature organ with keyboard and bellows to simulate the groans of a dying British officer. The Telegraph 

    SECTION II. MY SON, before all things I admonish thee to fear God, in whom is the strength of thy undertaking, and the bond of whatsoever thou meditatest to unloose; whatsoever thou hearest, consider it rationally. For I hold thee not to be a fool. Lay hold, therefore, of my instructions and meditate upon them, and so let thy heart be fitted also to conceive, as if thou wast thyself the author of that which I now teach. If thou appliest cold to any nature that is hot, it will not hurt it; in like manner, he who is rational shuts himself within from the threshold of ignorance; lest supinely he should be deceived. Take the flying bird and drown it flying and divide and separate it from its pollutions, which yet hold it in death; draw it forth, and repel it from itself, that it may live and answer thee; not by flying away into the regions above but by truly forbearing to fly. For if thou shalt deliver it out of its prison, after this thou shalt ...