Christie's
Auction House has posted a listing for the 84-page scrapbook kept by
Kurt Vonnegut's family in 1944 and 1945. The book includes 22
signed letters to Vonnegut's family, photographs, telegrams and
more. It has an estimated price of
between $150,000 and $200,000, according to the listing. Vonnegut was
born in Indianapolis on Nov. 11, 1922.
He wrote for the school paper as a student at Shortridge High School, an
served as managing editor of The Cornell Daily Sun as a chemistry
major at Cornell University. In January
1943, Vonnegut enlisted in the United States Army. "He was assigned to study mechanical
engineering at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tennessee before
deployment to Europe with the 106th Infantry Division in late 1944," said
the Christie's listing. "During the
Battle of the Bulge that December he was captured and held as a Prisoner of War
in Dresden, where he famously survived the Allied bombing in the meat locker of
a slaughterhouse. "It was an
experience that would inform the writing of his best-known and most influential
work, the semi-autobiographical novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five.'" The
scrapbook, which is green cloth with 106th Infantry Division Golden Lion
insignia mounted to the upper cover, was kept by his sister, Alice, and his
father, Kurt Vonnegut Sr. After
the war, he worked at the Chicago City News Bureau and then in public relations
for General Electric. "Player
Piano," Vonnegut's first novel, was published in 1952, but was dismissed
by critics. His work reached a large
audience with "Cat's Cradle" in 1963.
By the late 1960s, Vonnegut had emerged as one of the most influential
writers of his generation. Kurt Vonnegut
died April 11, 2007, after a fall at his New York home. He was 84.
Justin L. Mack Read more and see
pictures at https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/11/18/kurt-vonnegut-world-war-ii-scrapbook-inspired-slaughterhouse-five-christies-auction/2047269002/
FRIED rice lovers rejoice. Scientists
have found that you can cut your calories by simply adding an ingredient while
cooking your rice by Miranda Larbi
Experts looked at 38 different types of rice from Sri Lanka. And they found that adding the oil to the
water before adding the rice, simmering for 40 minutes then refrigerating for
12 hours, there was 10 times more resistant starch, compared to normal
rice. Adding oil to the water changes
the structure of the rice’s starch granules—making them resistant to our
digestive enzymes. That basically means
that by making rice more starch resistant, fewer calories from it get absorbed
into the body. To reduce the risk of
food poisoning, the NHS recommends: 1. Serving rice as soon as it’s been cooked 2. Cooling
rice as quickly as possible if you’re not going to eat it immediately 3. Keeping it in the fridge for no more than one
day until reheating 4. Making sure the rice is piping hot when you do
reheat 5. Don’t reheat more than once. Read more and see pictures at
"One person's plovers were another's princesses."
"The war had not yet taught her that it was critically important
to forgive sooner
rather than later." "You are a vision of . . . of .
. . of dazzlingness."
"Dazzlingness?"
"Is that a word? "It
may not be . . . " The Good at Heart,
a novel by Ursula Werner In the acknowledgments, the author mentions
numerous resources, including Susan Chehak Taylor and all the inspirational
writers of her 2013 advanced novel class, and the Iowa Summer Writers Workshop.
Ursula Werner is a writer and attorney currently
living in Washington, D.C., with her family. Throughout her legal career, Ms.
Werner has pursued creative writing, publishing two books of poetry, In the
Silence of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapunzel Revisited (2010). The Good at Heart (2017) is her first novel.
Kugel with Cottage Cheese, Leeks, & Dill by Tia Keenan serves 4 as
a main or 8 as a side Cottage cheese was
a favorite of early colonial settlers, who made it at home in their
“cottages.”
Cereal vs serial Cereal is an edible grain, the grasses that produce an edible
grain or the food product composed of an edible grain. Some cereals are
wheat, oats, corn, rye, and millet. Cereal may
be used as a noun or an adjective, the plural is cereals. Cereal comes from the Latin
word cerealis which means
of grain, derived from the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres. Serial means arranged in
successive parts in successive intervals, or a behavior that occurs repeatedly
in a predictable fashion. Serial may
be used as a noun or adjective, the adverb form is serially, the verb form is serialize. In the mid 1800s, many of Charles Dickens’
novels were first published in magazines in serial form,
popularizing the use of the word serial,
a word made by combining the word series and
the suffix -al. https://grammarist.com/homophones/cereal-vs-serial/
A serials librarian is in charge of materials in the
library that arrive on a periodic basis.
Before the advent of computerized materials, the serials librarian took
care of newspapers, magazines and professional journals. With today’s technology, the serials
librarian often maintains print periodicals in the library as well as online
databases and information systems. https://work.chron.com/serials-librarian-job-description-11946.html
Random musings from a serialist
See blog of an eclectic librarian at http://eclecticlibrarian.net/blog/
2nd Lt. Harry Spring from Dayton, Indiana kept a
diary of his war experiences in the United States, France and Germany between
1917 and 1919. The diary of Harry Spring
(1888-1974) discusses his training in Kansas (1917), combat support in the
Meuse-Argonne in France (1918), postwar occupation in Coblenz, Germany (1919),
and his return to Lafayette. Bob
Kriebel Read more and see graphics at
https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2018/11/12/old-lafayette-engineers-diary-gives-details-wwi/1934209002/ See also Old
Lafayette: Diary describes destruction
in Europe at https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2018/11/19/old-lafayette-diary-describes-destruction-europe/2044632002/
Patricia Hall went to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in
2016 hoping to learn more about the
music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. The University of Michigan music theory
professor heard there were manuscripts, but she was "completely
thrown" by what she found in the card catalogs: Unexpectedly upbeat and popular songs titles
that translated to "The Most Beautiful Time of Life" and "Sing a
Song When You're Sad," among others. More detective work during subsequent trips to
the Polish museum over the next two years led her to several handwritten
manuscripts arranged and performed by the prisoners, and ultimately, the first
performance of one of those manuscripts since the war. "I've used the expression, 'giving
life,' to this manuscript that's been sitting somewhere for 75 years,"
Hall told The Associated Press on November 26, 2018. "Researching one of these manuscripts is
just the beginning—you want people to be able to hear what these pieces sound
like. . . . I think one of the messages I've taken from this is the fact that
even in a horrendous situation like a concentration camp, that these men were
able to produce this beautiful music."
Sensing the historical importance of resurrecting music for modern
audiences, Hall enlisted the aid of university professor Oriol Sans, director
of the Contemporary Directions Ensemble, and graduate student Josh Devries, who
transcribed the parts into music notation software to make it easier to read
and play. Although the prisoners didn't
compose the songs, they had to arrange them so they could be played by the
available instruments and musicians.
Jeff Karoub https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/michigan-professor-unearths-inmates-music-auschwitz-59429830
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com November
27, 2018 Issue 1993 331st day of the year Thought
for Today Use only that which works
and take it from any place you can find it. - Bruce Lee, martial artist and
actor (27 Nov 1940-1973) Word of the Day mirative noun (uncountable, grammar) A grammatical mood that expresses (surprise at) unexpected revelations or new information. quotations ▼ (countable, grammar) (An instance of) a form of a word which conveys this mood. adjective (not comparable)
(grammar) Of
or relating to the mirative mood.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirative#English
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