This herbaceous take on a blondie is crispy, gooey and impossible to stop eating by
Becky Krystal Find recipe for
Salted Honey Bars With Thyme at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/08/29/this-herbaceous-take-on-a-blondie-is-crispy-gooey-and-impossible-to-stop-eating/?utm_term=.0c024038cc8b
In the works of Jorge Luis Borges, the library appears frequently as a
metaphor representative of life and its secrets. It becomes a metaphysical location, posing
questions about the nature of time, life, and the universe itself. The librarian becomes a metaphysical figure,
leading the search for answers to life’s questions. This article examines the way in which the
Borgesian library metaphor has crossed over from the realm of literature into
the realm of popular television. By
examining two episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, the TNT
franchise The Librarian, and several
episodes of Joss Whedon’s cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it demonstrates that the
metaphysical questions posed by the library and its librarian in Borges’s short
stories are quite similar to the metaphysical questions posed by the library
and its librarians in popular television, demonstrating that the Borgesian
library has crossed over into the realms of popular culture. http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol37/iss1/2/
See also Putting Borges’ Infinite Library On the Internet at
https://electricliterature.com/putting-borges-infinite-library-on-the-internet-1e26c286c5a Read The Library of Babel, originally published in Borges' collection The Garden
of Forking Paths in 1944, at https://libraryofbabel.info/Borges/libraryofbabel.pdf
or borrow it from a library.
Jorge Luis
Borges notes that his family
name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town",
"bourgeois". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges_(surname) Pronounce Jorge Luis Borges as
hor-hay loo-EESS BOR-hayss.
https://kutamaka.com/pronunciation/d1055/Jorge_Luis_Borges
Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram,
which does not include words that contain the letter E. The plot revolves around the dying fictional
city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of protagonist John
Gadsby and a youth group he organizes.
Though vanity published and little noticed in its
time, the book is a favourite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after
rarity among some book collectors. Later
editions of the book have sometimes carried the alternative subtitle 50,000
Word Novel Without the Letter "E". Despite Wright's claim, published versions of
the book may contain a handful of uses of the letter "e". The version on Project
Gutenberg, for example, contains "the" three times and
"officers" once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) See full text of Gadsby at https://archive.org/stream/Gadsby/Gadsby_djvu.txt
The sonnet form,
most commonly used for love poems, was created in Italy in the 13th century and
made popular by Renaissance poets such as Petrarch. The Italian sonnet (also called the
Petrarchan sonnet) is made up of 14 lines of iambic pentameter (lines of ten
syllables in a ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum rhythm). Its argument is in two parts, an octave
(eight lines) outlining a problem or question, followed by a sestet (six lines)
offering a resolution; the transition between the two at the start of the ninth
line is called the volta or
‘turn’. The octave rhymes abba abba, while the sestet can have a looser
rhyme scheme, often cde cde or cd cd cd.
The sonnet was brought to England in the early 16th century by Sir
Thomas Wyatt and was particularly fashionable in the 1590s. The Elizabethan sonnet (also called the
Shakespearean sonnet) is also in iambic pentameter, but it usually follows a
structure of three quatrains (four line stanzas) of cross-rhyme followed by a
couplet: abab cdcd efef gg. The volta usually
still comes with the ninth line, but in Shakespeare’s sonnets it often comes
with the 13th. Scholars believe that
Shakespeare wrote and revised his sonnets during the 1590s and early
1600s. They were first printed in 1609
in a quarto volume (Shakes-Speares Sonnets) containing
a sequence of 154 sonnets concluded by a longer poem, A Lover’s Complaint. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-shakespeares-sonnets-1609
It’s time to read by flashlight with your kids at the
Toledo Lucas County Public Library! We're partnering with Metroparks Toledo to
give out free flashlights (while supplies last) to families who read together
at any library location throughout the month of October in 2018. Pick up a flashlight at any Flashlight Frenzy
program (or you can use your own), snap a photo reading by flashlight,
then: Go to toledolibrary.org/librarylove Upload your Flashlight Frenzy photo and share
why you love the Library and/or reading.
Be entered to win a FREE night of camping at Metroparks Toledo One winner will be chosen and alerted via
email each week in October.
U.S. Pizza Museum, inside
the Roosevelt Collection at 1146 S. Delano Court W., Chicago, open 5 p.m. to 8
p.m. on Friday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
Admission is free and reservations are required. Vintage
menus, pizza boxes, and pizza-centric pop-culture memorabilia are proudly
displayed on the walls and behind glass cases.
It’s a tribute to the many different styles of pizzas across the country
and not just reduced to New York versus Chicago. Founder Kendall Bruns started by collecting
menus, but his hobby grew to tracking down toys (a Spider-Man figure comes with
a slice of pizza; Peter Parker is from Queens, N.Y.), limited-edition pizza
boxes (check out Pizza Hut’s Star Wars promotions), and
other vestiges of days of pizzas past.
The pop-up museum has traveled to various pizzerias around Chicago, but
Bruns hopes he’s found a permanent home at the Roosevelt Collection. Officially, the exhibit only runs through
October 2018. The museum will have pizza
for special events, but it won’t be regularly available. Pizza is best enjoyed fresh. Bruns does want to assemble a map of nearby
pizzerias for visitors. Deep dish from
Lou Malnati’s and tavern thin from Pat’s Pizza are both close. Chicago is the
home of the only two Bonci Roman-style pizzerias in the country. It makes sense for a pizza museum to call
Chicago home. See many pictures at
President Donald Trump’s
second address to the United Nations
reiterated the same point he made last year: His America is a sovereign one, and every
nation is on its own. “America is
governed by Americans,” he said to the UN General Assembly on September 25,
2018. “We reject the ideology of
globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism.” Alex Ward
Read entire speech at https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17901082/trump-un-2018-speech-full-text
Americans have been
banning books since at least the 1800's, when Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin was met with widespread censorship in the south over its
abolitionist message. Since then, hundreds of books have been challenged and banned by
libraries, school districts, and even federal courts. Banned Books Week began in 1982 to draw
attention to these widespread challenges to the free distribution of
literature. The event was intended to show
that banning attempts haven't been levelled only at famously controversial
books, but also at beloved titles like Charlotte's Web and The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Check
out some of the banned, challenged, and contested books The Strand has on our
Banned Books table below. Is your
favorite book on the list? https://www.strandbooks.com/banned-books/ Thank you,
Muse reader!
Restaurant owner says Maine asked her to stop giving
lobsters marijuana by Chris Mills Rodrigo Charlotte Gill clarified that she had not
been selling the "smoked" lobster to customers in
a letter published on the restaurant's website September
23, 2018. “We are not currently selling
this meat, (nor have we). The lobster
that we have prepared thus far was purely for our own testing and study as well
as to be able to have a conclusive base of information to work from when we
were eventually met with these questions,” she said. While the state has asked Gill to stop the
process, they have not mandated that the restaurant stop testing medical
cannabis on the lobsters. Gill wrote
on her restaurant's site that she hopes to address concerns and start
selling the lobsters by mid-to-late October. David Heidrich, spokesperson
for the Maine Medical Marijuana Program, told the Herald that medical
marijuana laws only apply to humans, implying that the state does not find the
project to be legal. “Lobsters are not
people,” he said. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/408383-maine-asks-restaurant-to-stop-giving-lobsters-weed-before
Jorge Agustín Nicolás
Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in
English as George Santayana (1863–1952), was a philosopher,
essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally
from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in
the United States from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a
valid Spanish passport.
At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and
returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to repeat it", "Only the dead
have seen the end of war", and the definition of beauty as
"pleasure objectified"
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue
1959 September 26, 2018 Thought for Today "A child
educated only at school is an uneducated child." — George Santayana, (died
this date in 1952). https://www.aikenstandard.com/today-in-history-for-sept/article_4d714dfe-bdfc-11e8-b441-bb385356c386.html
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