An outstanding post by Marginalia’s Peteris Cedrins on the history of Latvia’s the Battles of Cesis - as well as some musings on the Internet vs real libraries: “Though I adore and am addicted to the Internet — I would rather my mind resembled a library than looked like cyberspace. […] Cyberspace isn’t only everywhere […] (more…)
In the confusion of speaking different languages, are English language speakers losing their edge? Felix from Morocco has more here.
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The Wonk Family is in transit to our summer place in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. The roadtrip itself is 2,164 miles and given good weather and no surprises, we should arrive late Monday evening or early Tuesday.
Stopping only for fuel and food-to-go, the trip takes about 36 hours.
We should resume posting this Tuesday.
Among other communities, we should be passing through: Yuma (more…)
“A battle over individuality, morality, divinity, and spelling was being fought on a Caribbean beach. I loved it.” A passage from Omeros inspires Jamaican Geoffrey Philp to write about why he trusts poet Derek Walcott more than his pastor.
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