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Category Archives: Books Publishing and Writing
Ships Ashore Before Morn
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: On the third of November, a few days after this visit to the Why Not?, the wind, which had been blowing from the south-west, began about four in the afternoon to rise in sudden strong gusts. … Continue reading
In Vain Did the Opponents Urge That This Was Irregular
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In Pennsylvania the proceedings connected with the ratification were precipitous and narrowly escaped being irregular. Before it was known that Congress would even transmit the Constitution to the states for their consideration, George Clymer, who had … Continue reading
A Mighty Mass of Mischief
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Jefferson’s posthumous works were very generally circulated whilst I was in America. They are a mighty mass of mischief. He wrote with more perspicuity than he thought, and his hot-headed democracy has done a fearful injury … Continue reading
A Sense of Fitness
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: One other object in the capitol must be mentioned, though it occurs in so obscure a part of the building, that one or two members to whom I mentioned it, were not aware of its existence. … Continue reading
It Might Have Been a Lost Soul Wailing
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, … Continue reading
S-t-e-a-m-boat A-Comin’!
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, Missouri
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Straightforwardness in a Belittered World
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In view of the description given, may one be gay upon the Encantadas? Yes: that is, find one the gaiety, and he will be gay. And, indeed, sackcloth and ashes as they are, the isles are … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged Galapagos, Herman Melville, The Encantadas, The Piazza Tales, tortoise
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The Ambersons Were Magnificent in Their Day and Place
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Major Amberson had “made a fortune” in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged books, Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, The Magnificent Ambersons
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I Require the Blood of Fifty Children
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The Caliph, however, whose ideas were confused, and whose head was embarrassed, went on administering justice at haphazard; till at length the prime vizir, perceiving his situation, hit upon a sudden expedient to interrupt the audience … Continue reading
Juxtaposin’: Rage
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Rage–Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Politics and Economics
Tagged Homer, Mueller Report, The Iliad, Washington Post
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