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The 1899 Questionnaire
Many years ago, I came across this fun artifact from the papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, meant to blog about it, and never actually did. This is a “favorites” survey which Doyle filled out in 1899 – basically like a modern-day blog tag! He has pretty readable handwriting, but you can find a typed-up Continue reading
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The Art of Loving – Questions on Chapters 2.2-2.3
Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Previously: The Art of Loving – A Ramble on Chapters 1–2.1 This post will be rather more disjointed than my first one, as these sections left me with more questions than conclusions. Bear with me! As for the picture – especially in this part, I was having Continue reading
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The Art of Loving – A Ramble on Chapters 1–2.1
This month, Cleo is hosting a readalong of The Art of Loving (1956) by Erich Fromm and On Friendship by Cicero. It’s a sequel to the Four Loves Readalong – which feels recent but was actually back in June(!!). Fromm and C. S. Lewis were contemporaries (and Lewis’s book was published just four years later), Continue reading
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Moby-Dick – Chapters I-XVIII – Quick Check-In
Though dreadfully behind on Brona’s readalong, I am still plugging away at this American tome and really savoring it. This is my second time reading Moby-Dick, the first time being nearly a decade ago. The familiar scenes and phrases are coming back to me like old friends. NASA Johnson Space Center – Earth Sciences and Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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