"to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-day"

Quoth Wikipedia:

[Edwin Arlington] Robinson was born in Head Tide, Lincoln County, Maine, but his family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. He described his childhood in Maine as "stark and unhappy":^[2] his parents, having wanted a girl, did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort; other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected a man from Arlington, Massachusetts to draw a name out of a hat.^[3]

Also on Wikipedia, an excellent summary of the Nature Fakers controversy.

A new paper airplane distance world record has been set. (via)

---L.