Assateague & Shackleford Banks
The top picture is from the National Parks Services web site for Assateague National Seashore. I fondly remember visits there. First […]
History of the NFL
American football first became a professional sport in 1892, when Pudge Heffelfinger and Ben “Sport” Donnelly each received a gigantic sum of cash to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association of the Western Pennsylvania Senior Independent Football Conference. Throughout the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century, professional football was primarily a regional sport, with most informal circuits centered around one state or region with only limited play outside the state lines.
E. E. Cummings
Edna St. Vincent Millay: “[I]f he prints and offers for sale poetry which he is quite content should be, after hours of sweating concentration, inexplicable from any point of view to a person as intelligent as myself, then he does so with a motive which is frivolous from the point of view of art, and should not be helped or encouraged by any serious person or group of persons … there is fine writing and powerful writing (as well as some of the most pompous nonsense I ever let slip to the floor with a wide yawn) … What I propose, then, is this: that you give Mr. Cummings enough rope. He may hang himself; or he may lasso a unicorn.”[51]
Oh Holy Night
The church officials purportedly doubted the musicality of the hymn with a remarkable melody line that spans two octaves, as well as the orthodoxy of the lyrics which they said focused on humanity more than divinity, championed humility, and taught that all men and women have “souls,” a highly offensive concept to those supporting slavery.
Rudyard Kipling
George Orwell wrote in 1942 that, “although Kipling was “morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting”, his work had many qualities which ensured that while “every enlightened person has despised him… nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there”.
Passive-Aggressive
I’m trying Gemini AI for 14 days. Gemini wrote the following by asking me a few questions. What do you think? If fear of failure keeps me from trying, then I have failed. Ironically, failure can be the cause of one’s fear of failure..
William Blake
“Blake had an enormous influence on the beat poets of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s, frequently being cited by such seminal figures as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, songwriters Bob Dylan, Richard Ashcroft, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Bruce Dickinson, and English writer Aldous Huxley.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; … and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.
Irony Satire Sarcasm
I need to try to understand irony: the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect .