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I was hoping to get away with: "Lancleot ought to have been able to jump the chasm like Aragorn in Moria." But I am sure the reviewers will like much better: "Lancelot ought to have been able to jump the chasm like Cú Chulainn with his salmon-leap." -
Dirk Obbink
I see that Dirk Obbink has been arrested.
Despite his name, he comes from Nebraska. He is also the world's leading expert on Greek Papyri.
In the late 1890s an organization called The Egypt Exploration Society excavated the garbage dump in a town called Oxyrhhynchus in the Fayum in Egypt. Among other things, it contained all the book and papers that ( Read more... ) -
Filmed Opera
After posting links to video of Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals (which in itself might be a sign of the end times), Med Cat posted links to various opera companies that have put some film records of their performances out beyond the paywalls.
These may be alright for listening, but hardly for watching.
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I have Rings by Solti and Haitink, but for some reason no one but von Karajan could get the hammering on the anvils in Siegfried right.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Over the past week, I've had occasion to go over Childhood's End and 2001, and Clarke just did not understand anything about evolution. Those books are pure religious eschatology. His grip on evolutionary science was looser than Ken Ham's.
He also didn't understand anything about magic.
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Bible Stories
My daughter Madeline has been volunteering to watch children at a daycare center run by the Episcopal Church (its the kind of thing you need to do nowadays to get into the National Honor Society, and eventually into college). Today the children watched a television show called Veggie Tales in which cartoon vegetables (a cabbage, a carrot, broccoli ( Read more... ) -
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What did President Trump say during his D-Day commemoration speech?
"There were good people on both sides."
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Two years ago, I bought a package of three pairs of socks, consisting of 6 identical socks. Within a month, 5 of the socks had disappeared. For reasons that probably can't be explained, I saved the last one, letting it lurk in the back of the sock drawer. Today, one, and only one, of the missing five reappeared in the laundry basket. The return is ( Read more... )
