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From:  Nalini Sankaranarayanan  The first time I read the word bounder was in high school, reading a story Bounder and the Captain.  It was a novel experience for me to read an anti-hero--a lazy, scheming, transparently lying school boy with grandiose ideas of self importance, the bounder--being the focus of the story apart from being the butt of the joke.  Billy Bunter was a bounder indeed and now I wonder how many cliches and stereotypes we lapped up as children!

From:  Marge Simon  Charles Dickens is known for uniquely fitting character’s names and Bounderby came immediately to mind as a main character in Hard Times.  He’s the irritable old cad in the story, depicted as a self-asserted capitalist, and a coarse, vain, self-interested hypocrite.  https://wordsmith.org/awad/awadmail966.html 

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) is famously known for coining the term:  “No ideas but in things.”  This one line from the 1927 version of his poem, Paterson, became a mantra for poetry in the early 20th century.  It changed the look and feel of poetry, possibly more than any other single idea in the past hundred years.  It was not original, however, as this essay hopes to show.  His statement was a summary of the poetry trends at that time.  https://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/historical-view-of-wcwilliams-no-ideas-but-in-things-by-ed-wickliffe/ 

Paterson is an epic poem by American poet William Carlos Williams published, in five volumes, from 1946 to 1958.  The origin of the poem was an eighty-five line long poem written in 1926, after Williams had read and been influenced by James Joyce's novel Ulysses.  As he continued writing lyric poetry, Williams spent increasing amounts of time on Paterson, honing his approach to it both in terms of style and structure.  While The Cantos of Ezra Pound and The Bridge by Hart Crane could be considered partial models, Williams was intent on a documentary method that differed from both these works, one that would mirror "the resemblance between the mind of modern man and the city."  While Williams might or might not have said so himself, commentators such as Christoper Beach and Margaret Lloyd have called Paterson his response to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Pound's Cantos.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson_(poem) 

A hot pot, also known as soup-food or steamboat, is a cooking method that originates from Mongolia, prepared with a simmering pot of soup stock at the dining table, containing a variety of East Asian foodstuffs and ingredients.  Flavored broth is kept simmering, raw ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked in a manner similar to fondue (hot pots usually use a water-based soup, while fondues use cooking oil).  Hot pots may be prepared and eaten either at home or in a restaurant.  Since it is considered as a main dish, it can be enjoyed without other separate courses like rice or noodles.  The cooked food is often eaten with a dipping sauce for additional flavoring.  Typical hot pot ingredients include thinly sliced meat, leaf vegetables, mushrooms, vermicelli, sliced potatoes, bean products, egg dumplings, tofu, and seafood.  Raw ingredients are pre-sliced into thin sections that will cook quickly and consistently in the simmering broth, which is maintained at a gentle boiling temperature.  Most raw foods can be cooked in a hot pot, although they may have different cooking times, and must be immersed in the soup and then removed accordingly.  Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest hot pots appeared around the Zhou dynasty.  The tripods of Zhou dynasty may be the earliest prototypes of the hot pot.  Diners among the nobility each had a personal pot made of bronze, and called ran lu.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot  Thank you, Muse reader!  

Gress-, root. -gress- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "step;
move.''  It is related to -grad-.  https://www.wordreference.com/definition/-gress-   

Gress (Scottish Gaelic:  Griais), a hamlet on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, is adjacent to the larger village of Back.  Gress is within the parish of Stornoway.  Between 1919 and 1921, Gress--along with nearby Coll and Tong--as the scene of several land raids.   See graphics and link to surname Gress at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gress 

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify? by Emily Temple  Test yourself at https://lithub.com/how-many-of-the-100-most-famous-passages-in-literature-can-you-identify/  Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub.  Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020.   

Notorious RBG:  The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg  February 24–August 29, 2021 at Maltz museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, Ohio  Open during regular hours; Included with general admission  Wednesday - Sunday: 10am-5pm  Link to information on tickets at http://www.maltzmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/  As part of an ongoing outreach effort to connect visitors to the Maltz Museum during the pandemic, virtual visitors can explore Notorious RBG online.  Approximately 60 minutes in length, virtual attendees will enjoy a webinar style narrated exploration of key objects and artifacts followed by a docent-led Q&A.  Virtual tours will be offered on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m.  The cost is $10 per person and free for Maltz Museum members.   

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on January 20, 2021 launched the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library website, which provides information on archived White House websites and social media accounts, as well as information on access to the records of the Trump Administration.  The Trump Library will be part of the National Archives’ Presidential Libraries system, which, under the Presidential Libraries Act, established a system of privately constructed and federally maintained Presidential Libraries, going back to President Hoover’s administration.  NARA’s Presidential Libraries promote understanding of the Presidency and the American experience.  They preserve and provide access to historical materials, support research, and create interactive programs and exhibits that educate and inspire.   Regardless of whether a former President decides to build and donate an archival research facility and museum to NARA under the Presidential Libraries Act, the National Archives maintains the collection of Presidential records created by the Presidential administration as a Presidential Library.  The Trump Library will be the fifteenth Presidential Library operated by the National Archives.  https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2021/press-donald-j-trump-presidential-library   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2333  March 3, 2021