The New York Times reports [https://nyti.ms/2KXNzTP] that there's an environmental threat to the Montreal bagel: > The battle heated up late last year when rumors began to circulate that a City Hall official was planning to ban the ovens, which emit fine particles that can…
> "Life's short span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes." - 'Odes. Book One' Horace died #OTD [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OTD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] 8 BC. https://t.co/5uLbpFVpzq — Oxford Classics (@OWC_Oxford) November 27, 2019 [https:…
> “I always liked people who were older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.” —Fran Lebowitz https://t.co/rH4dSsS8fn — The Paris Review (@parisreview) November 20, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1196956825700184064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> Great tweet, @nathankhensley [https://twitter.com/nathankhensley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] And wow—you got to take a photo of the Middlemarch manuscript? Is that because it is touring? Or is this one of the BL’s digitized pages? They have posted some images but wouldn’t you LOVE…
Along the lines of a memorial to a melted glacier [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/remember/], here's a project to "to show the changes that’ll roll through [Essex, Massachusetts, and Durham, New Hampshire] as our planet warms. [https://earther.gizmodo.com/these-roadside-markers-have-a-futuristic-climate-twist-1839226975] " Brilliant. via Gizmodo…
> Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right. — Moby Dick (@MobyDickatSea) October 20, 2019 [https://twitter.com/MobyDickatSea/status/1186052243059027968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > So we be rid of them, do with ’em what thou wilt. https://t.co/o8HK1I7Xlw…
> "When all is said and done, social forces, however real and requiring notice, fall away and reveal, if only for a moment to be sought again and again in rereading, the glory of what [Harold] Bloom tells us is irreducible," Stanley Fish writes. https://t.co/kYE4yOqvUB…
> “In ‘The Waste Land,’ I wasn’t even bothering whether I understood what I was saying,” T. S. Eliot, who was born on this day in 1888, told an interviewer. https://t.co/bFlQNmpcDU — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 26, 2019 [https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1177236481624199168?ref_src=…