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“The thrill is in the chase, never the capture.”
Reading a review in the Christian Science Monitor of Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, I was tempted to do what author Elizabeth Hess apparently avoided doing: demonize the humans in his life and criticize them for their behavior, for coddling Nim when he was young, teaching him sign language and treating him [...]
A new biography of Peter Mark Roget, The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall, is an exploration of Roget’s compiling lists and classification of things as a way of keeping insanity at bay. Having suffered the death of his father when he was six months old and the death of his doting grandfather when [...]
Who was your hero when you were a kid? Was it a real person or a fictional character? Mine was Jacques Cousteau, a man who profoundly changed the way we view the world. While the horrors of World War II were going on, Cousteau, in occupied France, Cousteau, watched over by his wife Simone, dove [...]
This week’s word of the week is: juggernaut.
Over at The Stranger, author Paul Constant describes his experiences with stolen books. Once someone, apparently illiterate, handed him a list of books they were looking for, a list he describes as “the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books”, which consisted of:
High school is a crucible designed to destroy any remaining vestige of individuality, not to mention ego, of anyone who’s even remotely different from his or her peers. At the same time that our bodies take us on the most horrifying biological roller coaster ride of our lives, many of us find ourselves at the center of [...]
Recently NPR’s In Character Blog had an appreciation of Louise Fitzhugh, who wrote and illustrated the children’s classic Harriet The Spy, which was first published in 1964. It was shocking and outrageous. In her private diary Harriet records terrible things about her parents and her friends (who end up ostracizing her when they steal the [...]
Several years ago I was part of a small group that met weekly in a library next to a hospital to read literature and discuss its healing power. One week the moderator brought in a story she’d found in The New Yorker called People Like That Are The Only People Here: Canonical Babbling In [...]
This week’s word of the week is: isinglass. There are two types of isinglass. The first, and probably more widely used, comes from the word’s probable derivation from the Middle Dutch huus, meaning sturgeon, and blase, meaning bladder, because isinglass is a gelatin product derived from the swimbladders of fish, originally sturgeons, but also cod. [...] |
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