"As birds to hatch their young do sit in spring, / The ages do their broods of poets bring"

[larryhammer]

Three reading links:

Sales at independent bookstores in the USA rose 8% between 2011 and 2012. Content warning: bad Cretaceous extinction metaphor. (via)

What happens when Amish women read Amish romances, all of which are by English (non-Amish) writers of evangelical Christian romances. (via)

A rap lyrics site field-strips T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" to demonstrate how each phrase and allusion works -- click anywhere for commentary (alas the stuff does thin out as the poem goes on). (via)

---L.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Amish romances link: Wow, lookit the cultural appropriation . . .

[larryhammer]

Yup. Complete with ambivalence on the part of the appropriated. (I wish the author had dug a little more into that side of things, actually.)

---L.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

(Me too, though I do like her perspective as a Mennonite and a scholar.)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The reverberations of the Glorious First continue into my mailbox. Perhaps you have not seen this:

http://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/blog/2013/04/holy-smoke/

[larryhammer]

Bwah! No, I missed that one. Heh heh heh.

---L.

[larryhammer]

BTW, a link back atcha: http://neurobollocks.wordpress.com/