W. W. Norton: William Faulkner's Epigraph to Mosquitoes
In spring, the sweet young spring, decked out with little green, braceleted with the song of idiotic birds, spurious and sweet and tawdry as a shopgirl in her cheap finery, like an idiot with money and no taste; they were little and young and trusting, you could kill them sometimes. But now, as…
Happy National French Bread Day!
To celebrate these flaky and crunchy-crusted delights, we’re sharing our recipe for Bakery-Style French Baguettes with you to enjoy at home.
Bon Appétit!
“I am very cold”
“The parchment is very hairy.”
“Oh, my hand.”
—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work
Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out!
This is awesome.
Yup.
“Procure from the meat market a good beef soup bone — the bigger the better.”
-from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Recipe for Vegetable Soup
You may think of Eisenhower as “General” or “President,” but if the meticulous steps in recipe are any indication, Ike was no slouch in the kitchen. We especially like his springtime variation calling for edible flower stems.
Happy first day of Spring!
THE SCARS OF YOUR LOVE REMIND ME OF US.
THEY KEEP ME THINKING THAT WE ALMOST HAD IT ALL.
THE SCARS OF YOUR LOVE, THEY LEAVE ME BREATHLESS.
I CAN’T HELP FEELING …
WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL!
ROLLING IN THE DEE-EE-EEEP!
(Source: hysterical-blindness)
Fore-edge paintings are decorative images applied to the fore-edge of a book, meaning the fourth edge (not the top or bottom edge and not the spine but the outside (long) edge of the pages used by the reader to thumb through the book), so that the painting is not visible when the book is closed. In order to view the image, the pages must be fanned to reveal it. Watch a vidoe here via Boston Public Library.
Other sources to explore: The Frost Archive, Hofstra Library, and laughingsquid.
A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in Tokyo, Japan. Their relationship began when zookeepers presented the hamster to the snake as a meal.
However, the rat snake (named Aochan) refused to eat the rodent. The two now share a cage, and the hamster sometimes falls asleep sitting on top of his natural foe. Zookeepers have since named the hamster ‘Gohan’ – the Japanese word for meal.
Happy Ides of March, everyone!
“Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant, while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? What’s so great about Caesar? Hm? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? Because that’s not what Rome is about. We should totally just *stab* Caesar!”
- Gretchen Weiners
(Source: carpe-cerevisi)
