> When should you quit reading a book? A librarian -- of course -- offers some solid advice: pic.twitter.com/53RTPOTr37 [https://t.co/53RTPOTr37] — Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) January 3, 2020 [https://twitter.com/DanielPink/status/1213148136002199561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “I approach every reading decision with the same question: not just ‘Will this be good?’ but ‘Even if it’s good, will I wish that I’d spent those hours rereading Middlemarch instead?’” NEW Editors' Picks: @stephaniedk96 [https://twitter.com/stephaniedk96?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]'s favorite…
Mary Beard surprises with this bit 0f information about the Roman Catiline's lineage in SPQR: > Among his blue-blooded forebears, his great-grandfather was a hero of the war against Hannibal, with the extra claim to fame of being the first man known to have entered combat with a…
> "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." Happy Birthday, dear Emily! 🌹 — Emily Dickinson (@E_Dickinson) December 10, 2019 [https://twitter.com/E_Dickinson/status/1204419554253967360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Another opinion [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/if-only/].…
For years my favorite line in Middlemarch has been Lady Chettam's He is a gentleman. I heard him talking to Humphrey. He talks well. Now it's got some competition. > ‘The strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.’ Fred Vincy in #Middlemarch [https://twitter.…
> “The fact is that as times change the past changes as well.” —Luc Sante https://t.co/wgd9wLOGjG — The Paris Review (@parisreview) December 8, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1203525105566900224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
At The Washington Post, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/many-call-it-smelly-and-vile-but-give-this-fruit-a-chance-or-three/2019/11/27/2372093e-1130-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html] Virgil Thomson, via Oanh Ngo Usadi, suggests a variation on the "die three times [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/tag/die-three-times/]" theme seen several times here. > There is a saying, commonly attributed…
> “There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.” —William Faulkner https://t.co/ZbjWs0Y9Gf — The Paris Review (@parisreview) November 29, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1200203217163956224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…