I drove all the way to Tim's last night to upload to-day's chapter of Boschen and Nesuko. So happy birthday Nathaniel Hawthorne--and lest you think I'm ignoring Independence Day, I'll refer to the Wikipedia entry for "Young Goodman Brown" which quotes Stephen King as saying it's "one of the ten best stories written by an American." An excerpt from ( Read more... )

I think people are much duller than they used to be. That's the conclusion I reached after finishing the assigned reading for class this week, which featured Mary Rowlandson's firsthand account of the slaughter of her friends and family and subsequent enslavement. Then a bit from Uncle Tom's Cabin where Eliza eludes pursuers with a baby in her arms ( Read more... )