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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608</id><updated>2024-05-17T07:00:51.270-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Orange Crate Art</title><subtitle type='html'>“Got hyphens?”</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14542</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-6685622370265401160</id><published>2024-05-16T16:46:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-16T18:38:43.162-05:00</updated><title type='text'>John McWhorter’s apostrophes</title><content type='html'>John McWhorter has a new piece at &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; (gift link): &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/lets-chill-out-about-apostrophes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.FO87.EhPQZivR0fo6&amp;amp;smid=url-share&quot;&gt;“Lets Chill Out About Apostrophes.”&lt;/a&gt; Do you see what he did there? He argues that most apostrophes do nothing to make meaning clearer. And that using them is tricky. And that Chaucer did fine without them. And: “I’m not suggesting we eliminate the apostrophe, but I would rather retain it for cases where there is a genuine possibility of ambiguity.” I can’t imagine having that question hang over every apostrophe. Writings difficult enough already. Do you see what I did there?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  3. &lt;blockquote&gt;“Their deployment is governed by some rather fine rules — is it ‘my uncle’s book’ or ‘my uncles’ book’? ‘It’s’ or ‘it’s’? — that take a bit of effort to master”: Are these rules really so fine? Are they really that difficult to master? Yes, language evolves, and we (unlike Chaucer) use apostrophes. When they’re needed and missing, their absence can be conspicuous. Getting them right can be one way of getting a reader to pay attention to what you’re saying, sans distraction.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  4. If John McWhorter really wants to eliminate most apostrophes, he had better seek alternative publishers, no? I do agree with him on one point: no one should look down on someone who misuses or doesn’t use the apostrophe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  6. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:apostrophe&quot;&gt;apostrophe&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard) : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2021/10/john-mcwhorters-me.html&quot;&gt;McWhorter on subject and object pronouns (Him and me disagree)&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-john-mcwhorter-page-ninety-test.html&quot;&gt;A page-ninety test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/6685622370265401160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=6685622370265401160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6685622370265401160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6685622370265401160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/john-mcwhorters-apostrophes.html' title='John McWhorter’s apostrophes'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-1815724630282282478</id><published>2024-05-16T09:15:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-16T09:15:50.063-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Weevil- and hyphen-free</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yqGEIEeZVSKKbMPxUNkBb_LDqhypZruIsVsqTl9CK9j-qrN9S1sJUS5zeQ8_vHz0Aanwc7WNJRqjt7Icwlrb2B1oiNopnrZrVDqXb0HbJ8VfLQQwOgUgiOJ2KHby-6JOm5jJlQLtBl1hw0TUs6kz1WZjx-JwpppflBxYJhl82t5I386MSeYs/s1600/Weevil-free.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;463&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;231&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yqGEIEeZVSKKbMPxUNkBb_LDqhypZruIsVsqTl9CK9j-qrN9S1sJUS5zeQ8_vHz0Aanwc7WNJRqjt7Icwlrb2B1oiNopnrZrVDqXb0HbJ8VfLQQwOgUgiOJ2KHby-6JOm5jJlQLtBl1hw0TUs6kz1WZjx-JwpppflBxYJhl82t5I386MSeYs/s1600/Weevil-free.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  7. [3 1/2″ × 1 1/2″. Click for a larger view.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  8. I found one of these slips &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/09/weevils-and-hyphens.html&quot;&gt;in 2019&lt;/a&gt;, nestled amid (where else?) the sweet potatoes in Aldi. I found another earlier this week, sporting a new seal, the signature of a section manager instead of a director, and “Plant Industries Division,” plural. But the slip remains hyphen-free.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  9. More about hyphens&lt;br&gt;
  10. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2013/10/bad-hyphens-unhelpful-abbreviations.html&quot;&gt;Bad hyphens, unhelpful abbreviations&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/07/every-generation-hyphenates-way-it.html&quot;&gt;&amp;#8220;Every generation hyphenates the way it wants to&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/01/fellow-billionaires.html&quot;&gt;“Fellow-billionaires”&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/10/got-hyphens.html&quot;&gt;Got hyphens?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-hammacher-schlemmer-crazy-making.html&quot;&gt;The Hammacher Schlemmer crazy making hyphen shortage problem&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/03/living-on-hyphens.html&quot;&gt;Living on hyphens&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/12/mr-hyphen-and-e-mail.html&quot;&gt;Mr. Hyphen and &lt;i&gt;e-mail&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/03/mr-hyphen-and-mr-faulkner.html&quot;&gt;Mr. Hyphen and Mr. Faulkner&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/05/one-more-from-mr-hyphen.html&quot;&gt;One more from Mr. Hyphen&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/09/adventures-in-hyphenation.html&quot;&gt;The opposite of &lt;i&gt;user-friendly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/07/phrasal-adjective-punctuation.html&quot;&gt;Phrasal-adjective punctuation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  11. [Lest you think I’m Mr. Hyphen: he’s the title character in Edward N. Teall’s &lt;i&gt;Meet Mr. Hyphen (And Put Him in His Place)&lt;/i&gt; (1937).]
  12. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/1815724630282282478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=1815724630282282478' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1815724630282282478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1815724630282282478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/weevil-and-hyphen-free.html' title='Weevil- and hyphen-free'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yqGEIEeZVSKKbMPxUNkBb_LDqhypZruIsVsqTl9CK9j-qrN9S1sJUS5zeQ8_vHz0Aanwc7WNJRqjt7Icwlrb2B1oiNopnrZrVDqXb0HbJ8VfLQQwOgUgiOJ2KHby-6JOm5jJlQLtBl1hw0TUs6kz1WZjx-JwpppflBxYJhl82t5I386MSeYs/s72-c/Weevil-free.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-1195048091615759407</id><published>2024-05-16T08:54:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-16T09:39:29.315-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Perhaps the best words I’ll read today</title><content type='html'>“MOUSE CAUGHT”: on the side of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://tomcatbrand.com/en-us/shop/traps/tomcat-kill-contain-mouse-trap/0360630.html&quot;&gt;Tomcat Kill &amp; Contain Mouse Trap&lt;/a&gt;. I had to weigh our two traps on a postal scale to make sure that one held a mouse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  13. A post with a mouse in it&lt;br&gt;
  14. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/06/home-sweet-home.html&quot;&gt;“HOME SWEET HOME”&lt;/a&gt;
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  17. [In the thirty-three years we’ve lived in our house we’ve had four mice, one at a time, two killed, two found and released.]&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/1195048091615759407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=1195048091615759407' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1195048091615759407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1195048091615759407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/perhaps-best-words-ill-read-today.html' title='Perhaps the best words I’ll read today'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-404990497749900301</id><published>2024-05-15T11:32:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T11:32:58.637-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shrinking Trump</title><content type='html'>Cognitive decline + personality disorder = &lt;i&gt;Shrinking Trump&lt;/i&gt;, a new podcast, available from the usual purveyors. Drs. John Gartner and Harry Segal plan to chart, week by week, the declining wellness of the presumptive Republican nominee. Highly recommended.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  19. I have one criticism: too much laughter. It’s possible, sometimes, to see moments in a loved one’s decline with a stoic sense of humor. But with a country and a world in the balance, there’s nothing funny about Donald Trump’s decline. Turning his gaffes and rants into comedy (as on late-night television) helps to make it all seem acceptable.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/404990497749900301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=404990497749900301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/404990497749900301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/404990497749900301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/shrinking-trump.html' title='&lt;i&gt;Shrinking Trump&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-6039971226013956050</id><published>2024-05-15T08:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T08:01:41.419-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What John said</title><content type='html'>“&amp;#8239;‘I Dig a Pygmy,’ by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids”: after all these years, I discovered by chance who &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1914)&quot;&gt;Charles Hawtrey&lt;/a&gt; was. John says his name in the bit that precedes &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQox8e9688&quot;&gt;the Beatles song “Two of Us.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  22. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:Beatles&quot;&gt;Beatles&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  24. [“Deaf aid”: &lt;a href=&quot;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/deaf-aid&quot;&gt;British for “hearing aid,”&lt;/a&gt; and supposedly the Beatle name for an amp.]&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/6039971226013956050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=6039971226013956050' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6039971226013956050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6039971226013956050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-john-said.html' title='What John said'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-271049495420435061</id><published>2024-05-15T08:00:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T08:00:59.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Handwriting vs. typing</title><content type='html'>Old news by now, I’d say, but still news: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/11/1250529661/handwriting-cursive-typing-schools-learning-brain&quot;&gt;“Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning”&lt;/a&gt; (NPR):
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  26. &lt;blockquote&gt;Both handwriting and typing involve moving our hands and fingers to create words on a page. But handwriting, it turns out, requires a lot more fine-tuned coordination between the motor and visual systems. This seems to more deeply engage the brain in ways that support learning.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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  28. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:handwriting&quot;&gt;handwriting&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/271049495420435061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=271049495420435061' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/271049495420435061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/271049495420435061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/handwriting-vs-typing.html' title='Handwriting vs. typing'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8563030815746991763</id><published>2024-05-14T17:41:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-14T17:41:35.106-05:00</updated><title type='text'>“Mister”</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;NBC Nightly News&lt;/i&gt;: it’s galling to hear Laura Jarrett call Michael Cohen “Cohen” and call Donald Trump “Mister Trump,” every damn time. Too much deference.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/8563030815746991763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=8563030815746991763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8563030815746991763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8563030815746991763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mister.html' title='“Mister”'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-959693708733124066</id><published>2024-05-14T16:46:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-14T17:01:10.965-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alice Munro (1931-2024)</title><content type='html'>The writer Alice Munro has died at the age of ninety-two. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/books/alice-munro-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.v-8a.C7VseVBJ1u-4&amp;smid=url-share&quot;&gt;the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; obituary&lt;/a&gt;, about Munro’s response to an interviewer about being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature:
  29. &lt;blockquote&gt;Still groggy when interviewed by the CBC, Ms. Munro admitted that she’d forgotten that the prize was to be awarded that day, calling it “a splendid thing to happen,” adding, “more than I can say.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  30.  
  31. Struggling to control her emotions, she reflected on her success and what it might mean for literature. “My stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories,” she told the interviewer. “I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not something you play around with until you got a novel written.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  32.  
  33. Related reading&lt;br&gt;
  34. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:AliceMunro&quot;&gt;Alice Munro&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/959693708733124066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=959693708733124066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/959693708733124066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/959693708733124066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/alice-munro-1931-2024.html' title='Alice Munro (1931-2024)'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-7458190624593325178</id><published>2024-05-14T09:09:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-14T09:09:29.659-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Redbud and sky</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4VS4jzmWRIHbYJ45jD4LkmvttCm9PySekWqtBl2oHueUqBX0z7njkeJj4ziSRLpXaiY3GdgurU-JHPOuCHubgqiTJJgMZGDs6yGifGnKaFMGxikWguBVQ8fx9w0IkqK9ecMuk72eHPTPTPE1R_Lh9GXZ0EMBIi029NsKyRTYLyj70u13Z4nU/s1600/Redbud.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;900&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4VS4jzmWRIHbYJ45jD4LkmvttCm9PySekWqtBl2oHueUqBX0z7njkeJj4ziSRLpXaiY3GdgurU-JHPOuCHubgqiTJJgMZGDs6yGifGnKaFMGxikWguBVQ8fx9w0IkqK9ecMuk72eHPTPTPE1R_Lh9GXZ0EMBIi029NsKyRTYLyj70u13Z4nU/s1600/Redbud.JPG&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  35. [Click for larger leaves.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  36. The solar storm gave us a sky dark as night. Because it was night, and night is dark, even when seen via cameras, which are said to pick up more light. Our cameras picked up more dark. O dark dark dark, as the poet said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  37.  
  38. Much more attractive is the sky seen through the leaves of our redbud tree.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/7458190624593325178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=7458190624593325178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7458190624593325178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7458190624593325178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/redbud-and-sky.html' title='Redbud and sky'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4VS4jzmWRIHbYJ45jD4LkmvttCm9PySekWqtBl2oHueUqBX0z7njkeJj4ziSRLpXaiY3GdgurU-JHPOuCHubgqiTJJgMZGDs6yGifGnKaFMGxikWguBVQ8fx9w0IkqK9ecMuk72eHPTPTPE1R_Lh9GXZ0EMBIi029NsKyRTYLyj70u13Z4nU/s72-c/Redbud.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-3872446340210376307</id><published>2024-05-14T09:05:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-14T09:05:40.687-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul Berman on slogans</title><content type='html'>Paul Berman was a key figure in anti-war protests at Columbia University in 1968. He recalls chanting, “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win!” Here he comments on slogans in use in contemporary protests. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/T1Ul3&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;i&gt;The Chronicle of Higher Education&lt;/i&gt;:
  39. &lt;blockquote&gt;Those slogans are horrifying. People will say that the chants are calls for the human rights of Palestinians. And people will say that in chanting those slogans that’s what they mean. But this is an example of bad faith.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  40. Bad faith is when you don’t like the truth so you lie about it. Then you lie about having lied about it. You might even convince yourself that in lying about lying you’re not lying. That’s bad faith. It’s a twisted consciousness. We’re seeing a mass movement for a twisted consciousness.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  41. The real meaning of the “river to the sea” is that the state of Israel should not exist, that 50 percent of the world’s population of Jews should be rendered stateless. And the real meaning of “globalize the intifada” is that there should be a globalization of the events that introduced the word “intifada” to the world, namely the intifada of circa 2001, which was a mass movement to commit random acts of murderous terror. But people don’t want to acknowledge that. They get red in the face denying that’s the case. But they can’t explain why the students want to chant these things. The students want to chant these things, of course, because these slogans are transgressive. But no one wants to say what the transgression is because it’s too horrible. So we’re having a mass euphemism event: Horrible things are being advocated by people who deny that they’re advocating it.
  42. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  43. Berman blames professors, not students. An &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/uFFHEhttps://archive.is/U7eSY&quot;&gt;opinion piece&lt;/a&gt; published in &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt; explains why.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  44. Here, also from the &lt;i&gt;Chronicle&lt;/i&gt;, is an article about a course at Johns Hopkins that moves beyond sloganeering: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/EIudD&quot;&gt;“Yes, Students Can Have a Reasoned Debate about Israel–Hamas.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  45.  
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  47. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/current-events.html&quot;&gt;Current events&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-day-of-resistance-toolkit.html&quot;&gt;A “Day of Resistance” toolkit&lt;/a&gt; :
  48. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/nihilism-in-disguise.html&quot;&gt;Nihilism in disguise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/3872446340210376307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=3872446340210376307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/3872446340210376307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/3872446340210376307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/paul-berman-on-slogans.html' title='Paul Berman on slogans'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-1587091474943924536</id><published>2024-05-14T09:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-14T09:05:14.793-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bud’s Eraser Shop</title><content type='html'>A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thefarside.com/2024/05/14/2&quot;&gt;Far Side&lt;/a&gt; production.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  49.  
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  51. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:erasers&quot;&gt;eraser&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/1587091474943924536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=1587091474943924536' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1587091474943924536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1587091474943924536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/buds-eraser-shop.html' title='Bud’s Eraser Shop'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-250865363493261958</id><published>2024-05-13T12:51:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-13T13:04:43.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Witness for the prosecution</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFOs5uAFWQXn-rxPwwZ5vzj5RDyMbdgQYjwm6wbcQrfwZOm92zxVTBWfJZb5bI19W-Hjm7196KBEypfbytu_VgLdNBTwWOUGsqkjlXB6Yf4nk__MPB8LSaAR10NQn-jCIw-5Yg64ldiDJPMUDSocBHwnvMj_gi03c-P6cbCsYHx0VqLkLrzQo/s1600/Michael-Cohen-as-Fred-Rogers.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;948&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFOs5uAFWQXn-rxPwwZ5vzj5RDyMbdgQYjwm6wbcQrfwZOm92zxVTBWfJZb5bI19W-Hjm7196KBEypfbytu_VgLdNBTwWOUGsqkjlXB6Yf4nk__MPB8LSaAR10NQn-jCIw-5Yg64ldiDJPMUDSocBHwnvMj_gi03c-P6cbCsYHx0VqLkLrzQo/w380-h400/Michael-Cohen-as-Fred-Rogers.JPG&quot; width=&quot;380&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  52. [As seen on MSNBC earlier today.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  53.  
  54. I did not expect to see Fred Rogers testify as a witness for the prosecution in Donald Trump’s &lt;s&gt;hush money&lt;/s&gt; campaign-finance violation trial today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  55.  
  56. [That courtroom sketch is of course meant to depict Michael Cohen. Other eyes in the fambly see Neil Gorsuch and a fambly friend.]&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/250865363493261958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=250865363493261958' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/250865363493261958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/250865363493261958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/witness-for-prosecution.html' title='Witness for the prosecution'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFOs5uAFWQXn-rxPwwZ5vzj5RDyMbdgQYjwm6wbcQrfwZOm92zxVTBWfJZb5bI19W-Hjm7196KBEypfbytu_VgLdNBTwWOUGsqkjlXB6Yf4nk__MPB8LSaAR10NQn-jCIw-5Yg64ldiDJPMUDSocBHwnvMj_gi03c-P6cbCsYHx0VqLkLrzQo/s72-w380-h400-c/Michael-Cohen-as-Fred-Rogers.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8324098425815558767</id><published>2024-05-13T08:29:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-13T08:30:05.820-05:00</updated><title type='text'>FSRC: annual report</title><content type='html'>The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its ninth year. The club began after I retired from teaching, so the year runs from May to May. Here’s what Elaine and I have read, in alphabetical order by writer, and chronological order by work:
  57. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;&quot;&gt;
  58. &lt;p&gt;Djuna Barnes, &lt;i&gt;Nightwood&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  59. &lt;p&gt;Italo Calvino, &lt;i&gt;Marcovaldo&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Castle of Crossed Destinies&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Invisible Cities&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;If on a winter’s night a traveler&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Mr. Palomar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  60. &lt;p&gt;Anton Chekhov, &lt;i&gt;The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  61. &lt;p&gt;E.T.A. Hoffman, &lt;i&gt;The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  62. &lt;p&gt;Helen Keller, &lt;i&gt;The World I Live In&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  63. &lt;p&gt;Katherine Mansfield, &lt;i&gt;Stories&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  64. &lt;p&gt;Steven Millhauser, &lt;i&gt;Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;We Others: New and Selected Stories&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Voices in the Night&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Disruptions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  65. &lt;p&gt;Vladimir Nabokov, &lt;i&gt;Despair&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  66. &lt;p&gt;Jean Stafford, &lt;i&gt;Boston Adventure&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Mountain Lion&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Collected Short Stories&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  67. &lt;p&gt;Ivan Turgenev, &lt;i&gt;Fathers and Children&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  68. &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;United States of America v. Donald Trump&lt;/i&gt; (the Jack Smith indictment)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  69.  
  70. Thanks to the translators who brought several of these works to us: Anthea Bell, Maria Bloshteyn, Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Maya Slater, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, and William Weaver.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  71.  
  72. &lt;p&gt;The FSRC is forging ahead with Chekhov’s &lt;i&gt;Peasants and Other Stories&lt;/i&gt; (trans. Constance Garnett).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  73. Here are the reports for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2016/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2016&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2019&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2020&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2021/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2021&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2022&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/fsrc-annual-report.html&quot;&gt;2023&lt;/a&gt;.
  74. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/8324098425815558767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=8324098425815558767' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8324098425815558767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8324098425815558767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/fsrc-annual-report.html' title='FSRC: annual report'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-3829695087650525101</id><published>2024-05-13T08:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-13T08:28:05.133-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading or not in college</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;The Chronicle of Higher Education&lt;/i&gt; asks, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/UnH9A&quot;&gt;“Is This the End of Reading?”&lt;/a&gt; Reading in college, that is. An excerpt:
  75. &lt;blockquote&gt;Academics across the country are talking about the reading problems they are seeing among traditional-age students. Many, they say, don’t see the point in doing much work outside of class. Some struggle with reading endurance and weak vocabulary. A lack of faith in their own academic abilities leads some students to freeze and avoid doing the work altogether.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  76.  
  77. And a significant number of those who do the work seem unable to analyze complex or lengthy texts. Their limited experience with reading also means they don’t have the context to understand certain arguments or points of view.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  78. The limited ability of many students to read and write about complex or lengthy texts is a sad and still largely unacknowledged fact of college life. I’ll quote myself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/to-calkins-fountas-and-pinnell.html&quot;&gt;looking backwards as a retired professor of English&lt;/a&gt;:
  79. &lt;blockquote&gt;I wonder about the extent to which the dreary professorial practice of outlining the textbook on “the board” is not merely a matter of professorial laziness but a way to compensate, consciously or unconsciously, for students’ weaknesses as readers. And I wonder about the extent to which the decline of interest in the humanities might be explained at least in part by the difficulty so many college students have with the mechanics of reading. Figuring out the words is, for many college students, just plain hard — because they were never properly taught how.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  80. The most revealing bit in the &lt;i&gt;Chronicle&lt;/i&gt; article: the story of an academic &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/bBSeB&quot;&gt;who wrote in 2019&lt;/a&gt; about her decision to require less reading, because less is (somehow) more. How did that work out? As time went on, she found her students still struggling, or not doing the reading at all:
  81.  
  82. &lt;blockquote&gt;She has long followed the mantra “meet your students where they are.” But she says if she meets them any further down, she’ll feel like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  83.  
  84. Related posts&lt;br&gt;
  85. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:college/t:reading&quot;&gt;reading in college&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/3829695087650525101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=3829695087650525101' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/3829695087650525101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/3829695087650525101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/reading-or-not-in-college.html' title='Reading or not in college'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-6037521510738419491</id><published>2024-05-12T09:10:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-12T09:27:56.035-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Car trouble, continued</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKI4HVBg_4SoLWWRuVs_EIuwC7iVu0inSah7uq1FNu7haurfyULc1xdx1vJEYnhyphenhyphenLaD0rqlKOcU6otbLCAz8kE2f-_4uQDVNafM4KhkrtCoZY4K0yTGAKJZUp7a8njPgYueqe6aMa7tBOREKCJTDhdu2U4gB4zbq8YGIQW1pmnlMDBY8aS7QlU/s1600/1694-Madison-Avenue.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1778&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1186&quot; height=&quot;889&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKI4HVBg_4SoLWWRuVs_EIuwC7iVu0inSah7uq1FNu7haurfyULc1xdx1vJEYnhyphenhyphenLaD0rqlKOcU6otbLCAz8kE2f-_4uQDVNafM4KhkrtCoZY4K0yTGAKJZUp7a8njPgYueqe6aMa7tBOREKCJTDhdu2U4gB4zbq8YGIQW1pmnlMDBY8aS7QlU/s1600/1694-Madison-Avenue.jpg&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  86. [1694 Madison Avenue, c. 1939–1941. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/&quot;&gt;NYC Municipal Archives Collections&lt;/a&gt;. Click for a much larger view.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  87.  
  88. Last Sunday we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/car-trouble.html&quot;&gt;car trouble on Madison Avenue&lt;/a&gt;. I found a second photograph with the same trouble, seen from the other side of the avenue. The numbers that go with the photographs show this one, ending in 0017, coming first. (The other ends in 0022.) Thus we can imagine an adult or two looking on before walking away, leaving a man to struggle as two boys (his boys?) watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  89.  
  90. The buildings in this photograph, like the ones on the other side of the avenue, are now gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  91.  
  92. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKI4HVBg_4SoLWWRuVs_EIuwC7iVu0inSah7uq1FNu7haurfyULc1xdx1vJEYnhyphenhyphenLaD0rqlKOcU6otbLCAz8kE2f-_4uQDVNafM4KhkrtCoZY4K0yTGAKJZUp7a8njPgYueqe6aMa7tBOREKCJTDhdu2U4gB4zbq8YGIQW1pmnlMDBY8aS7QlU/s1600/1694-Madison-Avenue.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: .2em; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1778&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1186&quot; height=&quot;334&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKI4HVBg_4SoLWWRuVs_EIuwC7iVu0inSah7uq1FNu7haurfyULc1xdx1vJEYnhyphenhyphenLaD0rqlKOcU6otbLCAz8kE2f-_4uQDVNafM4KhkrtCoZY4K0yTGAKJZUp7a8njPgYueqe6aMa7tBOREKCJTDhdu2U4gB4zbq8YGIQW1pmnlMDBY8aS7QlU/s1600/1694-Madison-Avenue.jpg&quot; width=&quot;223&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  93.  
  94. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mErBRXV-WFh-oKbOxRpCbVlbPwDICxLY__Nk127jeoqChnfK-jOVGl50WNWzsa_vl_LOmAZZbYsW-Vb4FgDgJVyiHF2TjCPLztZRHaPV9jIskWOmiKHvMUSZxiNnQbwmvsWnHi_vjaR1K9wQkJykRft42PYDf6hU9uYjMMKRNCafOviWgkQV/s1600/1701-Madison-Avenue-comparison.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.0em; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1778&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1186&quot; height=&quot;334&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mErBRXV-WFh-oKbOxRpCbVlbPwDICxLY__Nk127jeoqChnfK-jOVGl50WNWzsa_vl_LOmAZZbYsW-Vb4FgDgJVyiHF2TjCPLztZRHaPV9jIskWOmiKHvMUSZxiNnQbwmvsWnHi_vjaR1K9wQkJykRft42PYDf6hU9uYjMMKRNCafOviWgkQV/s1600/1701-Madison-Avenue-comparison.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;223&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  95. [Click either image for a larger view.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  96.  
  97. In yet another tax photograph, the Wonder Bread truck &lt;a href=&quot;https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~5~5~211987~541313:1698-Madison-Avenue?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code&amp;qvq=q:block%3D1618%20AND%20lot%3D54;sort:borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code;lc:NYCMA~5~5&amp;mi=0&amp;trs=1&quot;&gt;makes a return appearance&lt;/a&gt;. (Thanks, Brian.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  98.  
  99. Related reading&lt;br /&gt;
  100. &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:NYCMunicipalArchives&quot;&gt;More photographs from the NYC Municipal Archives&lt;/a&gt; (Pinboard)
  101.  
  102. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/6037521510738419491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=6037521510738419491' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6037521510738419491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/6037521510738419491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/car-trouble-continued.html' title='Car trouble, continued'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKI4HVBg_4SoLWWRuVs_EIuwC7iVu0inSah7uq1FNu7haurfyULc1xdx1vJEYnhyphenhyphenLaD0rqlKOcU6otbLCAz8kE2f-_4uQDVNafM4KhkrtCoZY4K0yTGAKJZUp7a8njPgYueqe6aMa7tBOREKCJTDhdu2U4gB4zbq8YGIQW1pmnlMDBY8aS7QlU/s72-c/1694-Madison-Avenue.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-5666197336126015950</id><published>2024-05-12T09:02:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-12T10:53:37.688-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother’s Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMf8KI7x_lRNh4Kix2F3zFY5qZTGVfKFmr-e_QOKeta0MQcr3nf5nBH3vzi83kDd15lDdpOXgGnIDtMpHFzpUKJP_2nV4SdshofRqkQzcWI2kJFP-7yJcG9PSYTS768-XtcIPSnajaW2nTprUX6-M1pM4k146SpCd_50WW9Ma-E-DZm33Er1dD/s1600/Mothers-Day-1967.png&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1766&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1344&quot; height=&quot;591&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMf8KI7x_lRNh4Kix2F3zFY5qZTGVfKFmr-e_QOKeta0MQcr3nf5nBH3vzi83kDd15lDdpOXgGnIDtMpHFzpUKJP_2nV4SdshofRqkQzcWI2kJFP-7yJcG9PSYTS768-XtcIPSnajaW2nTprUX6-M1pM4k146SpCd_50WW9Ma-E-DZm33Er1dD/s1600/Mothers-Day-1967.png&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  103. [“Mother’s Day is the second busiest day of the year for Long Distance calling.” &lt;i&gt;Life&lt;/i&gt;, May 12, 1967. Click for a larger view.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  104. Happy Mother’s Day to all.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/5666197336126015950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=5666197336126015950' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/5666197336126015950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/5666197336126015950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mothers-day.html' title='Mother’s Day'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMf8KI7x_lRNh4Kix2F3zFY5qZTGVfKFmr-e_QOKeta0MQcr3nf5nBH3vzi83kDd15lDdpOXgGnIDtMpHFzpUKJP_2nV4SdshofRqkQzcWI2kJFP-7yJcG9PSYTS768-XtcIPSnajaW2nTprUX6-M1pM4k146SpCd_50WW9Ma-E-DZm33Er1dD/s72-c/Mothers-Day-1967.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-1890722809938207760</id><published>2024-05-11T12:20:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-11T17:18:55.889-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Trump punctuation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68987594&quot;&gt;“&amp;#8239;‘It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma,’ she added.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  105. Which just made using that comma feel a little stupid.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  106. Related reading&lt;br&gt;
  107. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:commas&quot;&gt;comma&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard) : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-punctuate-sentence.html&quot;&gt;How to punctuate a sentence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/1890722809938207760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=1890722809938207760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1890722809938207760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1890722809938207760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/trump-punctuation.html' title='Trump punctuation'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8772231235775698009</id><published>2024-05-11T08:39:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-11T16:05:14.528-05:00</updated><title type='text'>David Shapiro (1947–2024)</title><content type='html'>The poet David Shapiro has died at the age of seventy-seven. &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; (gift link) has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/david-shapiro-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.q_hO.DxLMVLQ1lFsC&amp;smid=url-share&quot;&gt;an obituary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  108. I met David by telephone in 1995. I had written a review of his &lt;i&gt;After a Lost Original&lt;/i&gt;, and he (somehow) looked me up and called me at home one night to thank me. That was maybe an hour-long, wildly exhilarating call, with me listening to a rapid-fire discourse of endless quotation and reference and putting in an occasional comment. Lucy Sante’s description of David’s talking (in the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt; obituary) is exactly right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  109.  
  110. I met David in person in 2002 at the Museum of American Folk Art, where he was introducing a reading by John Ashbery and A.N. Homes (an event tied to an enormous Henry Darger exhibit). David introduced me to his wife Lindsay like so: “He’s a poet, journalist, professor, and bon vivant.  He has a wife and two kids.” How did he know that I have two kids? I have no idea.
  111. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  112.  
  113. Here are a handful of lines from “The Foot Speaks,” in &lt;i&gt;New and Selected Poems (1965–2006)&lt;/i&gt;:
  114. &lt;blockquote&gt;
  115. Quoth the raven: I am language.&lt;br&gt;
  116. I am language,&lt;br&gt;
  117. And nothing in language is strange, to me.
  118. &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  119. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/8772231235775698009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=8772231235775698009' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8772231235775698009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8772231235775698009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/david-shapiro-19472024.html' title='David Shapiro (1947–2024)'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8504698572710807723</id><published>2024-05-11T08:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-11T08:00:18.291-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Today’s Saturday Stumper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.creators.com/features/newsday-crossword-stan-newman&quot;&gt;Today’s &lt;i&gt;Newsday&lt;/i&gt; &amp;#8202;Saturday Stumper&lt;/a&gt; is by Matthew Sewell. I started with 6-D, six letters, “Microcomputer Woz admired” and 23-A, seven letters, “James Stewart’s whistleblower,” and for a moment I thought that this puzzle and I were on the same wavelength. Not quite. I worked on it (the puzzle, not the wavelength) some more, quit, went out to dinner with Elaine (pad ped and pad Thai, spicy no. 3), came back, took another swing, and everything fell into place. Spicy no. 3 FTW!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  120. Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  121. 4-D, eleven letters, “Underscore?” Nicely colloquial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  122. 8-D, three letters, “Cell progenitor.” Is this biology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  123. 24-D, eleven letters, “Beyond beautiful.” A hilarious answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  124. 30-D, six letters, “Works.” I did not see this answer coming, not even after having its first letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  125. 32A, fifteen letters, “Fully exploit.” This clue fully exploits the fifteen columns of the puzzle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  126. 35-D, eight letters, “Finish line.” Ha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  127. 40-A, three letters, “Follow a stat.” Good grief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  128. 41-A, eight letters, “Capsule contents.” My first smarty-pants guess was EPHEMERA. I was thinking of a time capsule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  129. 43-D, five letters, “Above and below.” Sneaky, Stumper-y, and I’m happy that I caught on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  130. 49-A, eight letters, “Where low-fat meat comes from.” A strange, surprising anwer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  131. 54-A, nine letters, “Weblog with an Eyre Apparent exhibit post.” Excuse me: “weblog”? And said weblog hasn’t been updated since 2009. There are better ways to clue this answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  132. My favorite in this puzzle: 8-D, eight letters, “Advice column.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/8504698572710807723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=8504698572710807723' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8504698572710807723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8504698572710807723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/todays-saturday-stumper_11.html' title='Today’s Saturday Stumper'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-7878043713924577136</id><published>2024-05-10T07:32:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-10T20:14:42.041-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet</title><content type='html'>I asked ChatGPT to write a bookmarklet that would add a URL to Pinboard and paste in text copied from the clipboard as a description. Here’s what I got:
  133.  
  134. &lt;blockquote&gt;javascript:(function(){
  135. var url = encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
  136. var title = document.title.replace(/^.*?-/, &#39;&#39;).trim();
  137.    var description = prompt(&#39;Enter description (Ctrl+V to paste from clipboard):&#39;);
  138.    
  139.    if (!description) {
  140.        return;
  141.    }
  142.    
  143.    description = encodeURIComponent(description.trim());
  144.    
  145.    var pinboardURL = &#39;https://pinboard.in/add?url=&#39; + url + &#39;&amp;amp;title=&#39; + title + &#39;&amp;amp;description=&#39; + description;
  146.    
  147.    window.open(pinboardURL, &#39;_blank&#39;);
  148. })();&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  149.  
  150.  
  151. I know — huh? But it works. It doesn’t do exactly what I’d like it to do: I cannot add a blog post’s URL to Pinboard without having my blog’s name show up as part of the post title, so I just delete the prefatory &lt;i&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/i&gt;. (I’m not sure it‘s even possible to remove the blog name automatically.) Two advantages of this bookmarklet: it allows text from the clipboard to be pasted in as a description, and it shows existing tags when I begin typing a tag name. For those reasons, this bookmarklet beats other bookmarklets and a Safari extension that I’ve tried.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  152. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxzGaGlQdxPLp5s2jpEZswPZyG5GfbGy0DVLl4g00edef4lMPTx3MDLAPz4lqDjn9qjoi8hwopy_8bGZUuCFXcOxgewwCHp9MiLZlz61fC5KSCCJ690nPYT8oW9GS52D77HUIj97mLfvGSB4CY6u-Ok4NRLlf2k8-cwmn0J5LZ38j9Vw95ezj/s1600/Pinboard-tagging.png&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;291&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;146&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxzGaGlQdxPLp5s2jpEZswPZyG5GfbGy0DVLl4g00edef4lMPTx3MDLAPz4lqDjn9qjoi8hwopy_8bGZUuCFXcOxgewwCHp9MiLZlz61fC5KSCCJ690nPYT8oW9GS52D77HUIj97mLfvGSB4CY6u-Ok4NRLlf2k8-cwmn0J5LZ38j9Vw95ezj/w400-h129/Pinboard-tagging.png&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  153. [It works!]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  154.  
  155. With &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/04/making-html-links-with-alfred-workflows.html&quot;&gt;Alfred workflows&lt;/a&gt; and, now, a bookmarklet, ChatGPT does what I’d never be able to do on my own.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  156. A related post&lt;br&gt;
  157. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/04/adding-links-to-pinboard.html&quot;&gt;Adding links to Pinboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/7878043713924577136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=7878043713924577136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7878043713924577136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7878043713924577136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/another-try-at-pinboard-bookmarklet.html' title='Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxzGaGlQdxPLp5s2jpEZswPZyG5GfbGy0DVLl4g00edef4lMPTx3MDLAPz4lqDjn9qjoi8hwopy_8bGZUuCFXcOxgewwCHp9MiLZlz61fC5KSCCJ690nPYT8oW9GS52D77HUIj97mLfvGSB4CY6u-Ok4NRLlf2k8-cwmn0J5LZ38j9Vw95ezj/s72-w400-h129-c/Pinboard-tagging.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-692590253326872808</id><published>2024-05-10T07:25:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-10T07:25:26.928-05:00</updated><title type='text'>“Decline by 9”</title><content type='html'>In &lt;a href=&quot;https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html&quot;&gt;“Not Lost in a Book”&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Slate&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8202;), Dan Kois writes about a decline in children’s reading:
  158. &lt;blockquote&gt;It’s called the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/navigate-the-world.html&quot;&gt;“Decline by 9,”&lt;/a&gt; and it’s reaching a crisis point for publishers and educators. According to research by the children’s publishers Scholastic, at age 8, 57 percent of kids say they read books for fun most days; at age 9, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/KFRR/FindingTheirStory_Navigate/KFRR_Navigate_HighResDownload_Fig3_.png&quot;&gt;only 35 percent do&lt;/a&gt;. This trend started before the pandemic, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated things. “I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how disruptive the pandemic was on middle grade readers,” &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/92580-the-shifting-middle-grade-market.html&quot;&gt;one industry analyst told &lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And everyone I talked to agreed that the sudden drop-off in reading for fun is happening at a crucial age — the very age when, according to publishing lore, lifetime readers are made.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Kois describes the causes as numerous: screen time, lack of screens (no marketing via BookTok), a decline in word-of-mouth reading recommendations during the pandemic, test-focused teaching with an emphasis on excerpts not books, and the defunding of libraries.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  159. Related reading&lt;br&gt;
  160. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:reading&quot;&gt;reading&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/692590253326872808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=692590253326872808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/692590253326872808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/692590253326872808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/decline-by-9.html' title='“Decline by 9”'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-1997449561966692573</id><published>2024-05-10T07:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-10T08:18:31.323-05:00</updated><title type='text'>NYRB Nancy</title><content type='html'>You know the end times are upon us when New York Review Books puts out a &lt;i&gt;Nancy&lt;/i&gt; collection: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nyrb.com/products/nancy-and-sluggos-guide-to-life&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life: Comics about Money, Food, and Other Essentials&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It’s on sale now at NYRB, 25% off.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  161. Related reading&lt;br&gt;
  162. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:Nancy&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nancy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/1997449561966692573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=1997449561966692573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1997449561966692573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/1997449561966692573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/nyrb-nancy.html' title='NYRB &lt;i&gt;Nancy&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-7649309641783272057</id><published>2024-05-09T13:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-09T13:30:53.480-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPBmNSAGOMW_yGEnldfU417iJ4XpPMw-_HuTSjURVhK9CRNVN2jMUXYVBiEWGY56t1nH4BU5gUoZSIaY8rroVZBrzfrM5-wzEOv5Of4KGaPwZ93rlpDaU5UdB-NfUANQW0EgLSHxZrXOaY9DCu-FNgOERvOPsy2Nh4lotyGMm6a-eaHPEm-EZ/s1600/Cicada.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;718&quot; data-original-width=&quot;718&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPBmNSAGOMW_yGEnldfU417iJ4XpPMw-_HuTSjURVhK9CRNVN2jMUXYVBiEWGY56t1nH4BU5gUoZSIaY8rroVZBrzfrM5-wzEOv5Of4KGaPwZ93rlpDaU5UdB-NfUANQW0EgLSHxZrXOaY9DCu-FNgOERvOPsy2Nh4lotyGMm6a-eaHPEm-EZ/s1600/Cicada.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  163. [Click for a larger view.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  164.  
  165. The first one we’ve seen, on a walk this morning. I hope it got across the street.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  166.  
  167. A related post&lt;br&gt;
  168. &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2022/11/cicadas-in-their-primes.html&quot;&gt;Cicadas, prime numbers, and the Great Confluence of 1998&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/7649309641783272057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=7649309641783272057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7649309641783272057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/7649309641783272057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/first.html' title='First!'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPBmNSAGOMW_yGEnldfU417iJ4XpPMw-_HuTSjURVhK9CRNVN2jMUXYVBiEWGY56t1nH4BU5gUoZSIaY8rroVZBrzfrM5-wzEOv5Of4KGaPwZ93rlpDaU5UdB-NfUANQW0EgLSHxZrXOaY9DCu-FNgOERvOPsy2Nh4lotyGMm6a-eaHPEm-EZ/s72-c/Cicada.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-4363334863188858934</id><published>2024-05-09T09:22:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-09T12:10:39.241-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mystery actor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99l0fePYUXAfQCoriXRQij33f6zTor2FgGk1teeY3fGICzFaNseVMOY6bplS7XPHa-5VzzBNDzcOSzFK5cXmjEHYQyk4SG3KLbeqJZDSAjmDgPMlGPZ94klxkmaVv65bRrP83yW0SjjD4feLC3_rCtgIbT7moa8V-HNGuS1BUQhTYHjG4ZYov/s1600/Mystery-actor.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;694&quot; data-original-width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;347&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99l0fePYUXAfQCoriXRQij33f6zTor2FgGk1teeY3fGICzFaNseVMOY6bplS7XPHa-5VzzBNDzcOSzFK5cXmjEHYQyk4SG3KLbeqJZDSAjmDgPMlGPZ94klxkmaVv65bRrP83yW0SjjD4feLC3_rCtgIbT7moa8V-HNGuS1BUQhTYHjG4ZYov/s1600/Mystery-actor.jpg&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  169. [Click for a larger view.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  170. That’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/la-casa-dei-roventini.html&quot;&gt;Johnny Roventini&lt;/a&gt; (“Call for Philip Morris”) in the background, above a display of  upside-down Chesterfield packs. But who’s in the foreground?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  171.  
  172. I’ll drop a hint if one is needed, and brother, one is gonna be needed. (I’m typing like the 1940s.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  173. *&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  174.  
  175. A hint might help: In this movie, she’s a long way from Salzburg.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  176. *&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  177.  
  178. Noon: I think this one’s ungettable. You’re still welcome to play, but I’ve put the answer in the comments.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  179.  
  180. More mystery actors (Collect them all)&lt;br /&gt;
  181. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2013/05/route-66-mystery-guest_10.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-route-66-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2013/06/route-66-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-route-66-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2014/01/naked-city-mystery-guests.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2014/02/naked-city-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2014/02/naked-city-mystery-guest_25.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2014/03/naked-city-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2014/07/naked-city-mystery-guest.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/06/name-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/08/name-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/11/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2016/03/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2016/04/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2016/05/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2016/08/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/01/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/04/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/06/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/12/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/12/mystery-actor_5.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/12/mystery-actor_18.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/01/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/03/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/03/mystery-actor_19.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-mystery-actor-and-telephone-exchange.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/08/mystery-actors.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/09/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/10/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/10/mystery-actor_11.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;zhttps://mleddy.blogspot.com/2018/11/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/02/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/07/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/08/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/10/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2019/10/mystery-actor_29.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/01/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/04/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/06/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/09/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/11/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2020/11/mystery-actors.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; 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: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/02/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/03/mystery-actors.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/03/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/04/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/04/mystery-actor_21.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/05/mystery-actor_24.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/08/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/10/mystery-actor_24.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2023/12/mystery-actor_21.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/02/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/03/mystery-actor_21.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mystery-actor.html&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;i&gt;Garner’s Modern English Usage&lt;/i&gt; notes that “support for &lt;i&gt;actress&lt;/i&gt; seems to be eroding.” So I use &lt;i&gt;actor&lt;/i&gt;.]&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/4363334863188858934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=4363334863188858934' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/4363334863188858934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/4363334863188858934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/mystery-actor_9.html' title='Mystery actor'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99l0fePYUXAfQCoriXRQij33f6zTor2FgGk1teeY3fGICzFaNseVMOY6bplS7XPHa-5VzzBNDzcOSzFK5cXmjEHYQyk4SG3KLbeqJZDSAjmDgPMlGPZ94klxkmaVv65bRrP83yW0SjjD4feLC3_rCtgIbT7moa8V-HNGuS1BUQhTYHjG4ZYov/s72-c/Mystery-actor.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8024155430222919535</id><published>2024-05-09T09:08:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-09T12:11:52.602-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Travel</title><content type='html'>Martin Edelweiss’s tutor deems Cambridge student Darwin “&amp;#8239;‘a splendid specimen.’&amp;#8239;” Darwin’s studies at Cambridge were interrupted by the Great War: he spent three years in the trenches, “&amp;#8239;‘and not a scratch, either morally or physicially.’&amp;#8239;” And he’s published a book of short stories that, the narrator tells us, “connoisseurs were raving about.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  183. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUO9DYf9XGdWj8oUc2r8uFHJfaqHRBReD5LgJhXm3YHA7499YdA3sFzUPHxaGvVRbx2j0IFNpeYFbOEz-WSEYqrWqy8EuwPUS9gMNclxfm6e0JxnPKtK_SV87manjPSDlox_dteZJhoaqWR5AaygXs57TmRRwdgiJX_89Pbs_2XRhchSJWNSyT/s1600/Nabokov-Glory-travel.png&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 0em 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;556&quot; data-original-width=&quot;850&quot; height=&quot;278&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUO9DYf9XGdWj8oUc2r8uFHJfaqHRBReD5LgJhXm3YHA7499YdA3sFzUPHxaGvVRbx2j0IFNpeYFbOEz-WSEYqrWqy8EuwPUS9gMNclxfm6e0JxnPKtK_SV87manjPSDlox_dteZJhoaqWR5AaygXs57TmRRwdgiJX_89Pbs_2XRhchSJWNSyT/s1600/Nabokov-Glory-travel.png&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  185. Martin has to say &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; back, yes? But that last sentence will prove prophetic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  186. Related reading&lt;br&gt;
  187. All OCA &lt;a href=&quot;https://pinboard.in//u:M.Leddy/t:Nabokov&quot;&gt;Nabokov&lt;/a&gt; posts (Pinboard)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You&amp;#8217;re reading a post from Michael Leddy&amp;#8217;s blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://mleddy.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Orange Crate Art&lt;/a&gt;. Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons 4.0 License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/feeds/8024155430222919535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343608&amp;postID=8024155430222919535' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8024155430222919535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8343608/posts/default/8024155430222919535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mleddy.blogspot.com/2024/05/travel.html' title='Travel'/><author><name>Michael Leddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7eMaSiVHM6HCXXF-jIRfj2yjyFw9bQSnat3L9BU8PcNLK3HJVdKm8r-0NddPEg5cyWFlhoA6l8pdbxOZf4zFGuMFwmjxiVqn1-9axp1Unkk61RW18vMhqCc1eBAY9w8OHW0Ui0ER4xiPBk7teozzT7dM-r4j_4KP4D-TxvQvS5ZMSpg/s220/Michael-sidebar-2024-04-smallest.jpeg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUO9DYf9XGdWj8oUc2r8uFHJfaqHRBReD5LgJhXm3YHA7499YdA3sFzUPHxaGvVRbx2j0IFNpeYFbOEz-WSEYqrWqy8EuwPUS9gMNclxfm6e0JxnPKtK_SV87manjPSDlox_dteZJhoaqWR5AaygXs57TmRRwdgiJX_89Pbs_2XRhchSJWNSyT/s72-c/Nabokov-Glory-travel.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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