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By: Not So Distant Future » Of cabbages and kings and random things…

Not So Distant Future » Of cabbages and kings and random things… — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:56:26 +0000

[...] the earliest mention of it I could, running across all sorts of blogs on the way, including several librarian blogs, a blog about living in Africa, some religious blogs, a blog by a cancer survivor, blogs by [...]

By: kgs

kgs — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:58:26 +0000

Hah, great! But Julie, Cooper’s books do “reveal an extraordinary fullness of invention.” Absolutely nobody talks that way…

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:03:21 +0000

My American Lit prof was unamused when I brought Mark Twain’s “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” to class while discussing The Deerslayer, but that was an AHA for me too http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/rissetto/offense.html

By: kgs

kgs — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:51:39 +0000

I like “heartly” — “She was many things, even heartly.”

By: Mary Page

Mary Page — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:20:03 +0000

Re: synecdoche. Until very recently I thought that “heartly” was a real word. Like a lot of Catholic kids, I could speed-pray through my penance, which always included the “Act of Contrition.” AofC begins: Oh my God, I am heartly sorry, for having offended thee… I was well into my forties when I learned the right word was “heart-ily.” My confusion was probably reinforced by our preference for “Oh my God I am hardly sorry….” which we thought was wildly funny, of course.

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:59:12 +0000

I tried womanfully to get through Last of the Mohicans, because it was my grandfather’s favorite book and I was very fond of my grandfather.

I didn’t make it.

By: kgs

kgs — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:37:38 +0000

“Forsooth, wouldst that be a colonist?” “I say, I do believe so!” “What ho, let us invite him over…”

By: Millie

Millie — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:44:21 +0000

I, too, read Last of the Mohicans at a young age and did not like it.

By: kgs

kgs — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:59:57 +0000

Hah, I would be in the Hinterlands myself… the closest library that carries White Crane is University of Illinois, at 705 miles away! Nice to know that Ebsco steps in… it would be interesting to see if any libraries in the Southeast carry the LGBT Life database.

By: David Fiander

David Fiander — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:36:30 +0000

For those of us in the hinterland, White Crane is available via EBSCO’s LGBT Life database, which has the wonderful feature that it can send alerts when new content is available for a journal.