Reading:  In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom & H. L. Mencken, ed. by Edward A. Martin (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1996)

A couple of months ago I dined at Mary Chung's in Cambridge with a lady I admire.  A subset of the MIT chantey singers usually goes there after the monthly sing; that time, by chance, it was down to the two of us, so I ( Read more... )

In his charming essay "On Catholic and Protestant Skeptics" (1928; reprinted in Why I Am Not a Christian), Bertrand Russell calls Home Life with Herbert Spencer, by Two, "one of the most delightful books in existence".  I first harkened to that recommendation some decades ago, but of course the book was way out of print.  In 2006 & 2008 I made two ( Read more... )