“You could say he had betrayed Modernism itself, by not taking seriously enough the command to Make It New.” More Auden (the day after his centennial) here.
Bog roll: not quite the same as a blog roll (via Book Depository).
Right, there’s that, and there’s also the fact that those idiot logical positivists wiped out pragmatism (which had made intellectual modesty cool).
How to manage with a sales force of one.
Don’t focus on revolutionary ideas–you might upset someone. Also, ignore your audience–otherwise you might end up with one, and thus be competition.
“We know that it is mainly the left hemisphere that controls language, that a special center, called the Broca center after the name of its discoverer.”
Good news for bankrupt publisher.
“No other writer has been subject to more musical transformations than Shakespeare – his plays and lyrics have inspired composers from Purcell to Schubert to Elvis Costello.”