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June 11
1850 Death is general though Cormac McCarthy's Bloody Meridian, meted out and suffered and sparing on one save Judge Holden—the judge who, he says himself, will never die. But for everyone and everything else in the story the end is ever-present. The marauders in Glanton's gang, whose murderous swarming across the Southwest makes up much of the novel, band together and disband without sentiment or permanence
— Jun 13, 2024 05:23AM
1850 Death is general though Cormac McCarthy's Bloody Meridian, meted out and suffered and sparing on one save Judge Holden—the judge who, he says himself, will never die. But for everyone and everything else in the story the end is ever-present. The marauders in Glanton's gang, whose murderous swarming across the Southwest makes up much of the novel, band together and disband without sentiment or permanence
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October 15
1920 Katherine Mansfield, in the Athenaeum, on Gertrude Stein's Three Lives: "Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them. Don't mind how often you go back to the beginning, don't hesitate to say the same thing over and over again—people are always repeating themselves—don't be put off if the words sound funny at times: just keep right on, ...
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1920 Katherine Mansfield, in the Athenaeum, on Gertrude Stein's Three Lives: "Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them. Don't mind how often you go back to the beginning, don't hesitate to say the same thing over and over again—people are always repeating themselves—don't be put off if the words sound funny at times: just keep right on, ...
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October 14
1939 Ambitious and prolific, Thomas Merton spent his twenty-fifth summer with two friends in a cottage in upstate New York, each writing a novel he thought would make his name. Back in New York City in the fall, Merton got a publishers rejection slip for his novel on this day; when he called to ask why, they said it was dull and badly written, and Merton realized he agreed. But by that time his mind...
— 20 hours, 57 min ago
1939 Ambitious and prolific, Thomas Merton spent his twenty-fifth summer with two friends in a cottage in upstate New York, each writing a novel he thought would make his name. Back in New York City in the fall, Merton got a publishers rejection slip for his novel on this day; when he called to ask why, they said it was dull and badly written, and Merton realized he agreed. But by that time his mind...
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October 13
1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
— Oct 19, 2025 08:09AM
1926 "We have so many bedbugs," Isaac Babel wrote his mother from Moscow, "that it has b become. legend among the other dwellers in our apartment."
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October 12
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
— Oct 18, 2025 05:54PM
1713 ... Bay Colony Institute of Technological Arts, has been summoned back to Europe to mediate the supremely irrational dispute between the two inventors of the calculus and thereby rescue the path toward progress that Root promises, with Stephenson's usual brand of anachronistic cheek, will ultimately make Waterhouse's own institute a glorious campus dedicated to the "art of automatic computing."
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October 11
1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
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1928 Arthur Sydney McDowell, in the TLS, on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: "It is a fantasy, impossible but delicious; existing in its own right by the colour of imagination and exuberance of life and wit."
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October 10
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
— Oct 18, 2025 05:50AM
19047 Fired as a publisher's assistant, William Styron reported to his father he was glad, since publishing is "only a counterfeit, a reflection, of really creative work."
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October 9
1890 The trouble with fictional chronologies is that sometimes the math just doesn't add up. It sharpens our sense of Sherlock Holmes as a living presence to read such concrete details as the posted notice in one of his best-loved cases that "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED, October 9, 1890." The problem, though, as generations of Holmesians have debated, is the Mr. Jabez Wilson the red-headed dupe ...
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1890 The trouble with fictional chronologies is that sometimes the math just doesn't add up. It sharpens our sense of Sherlock Holmes as a living presence to read such concrete details as the posted notice in one of his best-loved cases that "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED, October 9, 1890." The problem, though, as generations of Holmesians have debated, is the Mr. Jabez Wilson the red-headed dupe ...
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October 8
1818 ...showed a resilient indifference in a letter to his publisher on this day. He was his now fiercest critic, after all: "My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict." With his "slipshod Endymion," he added, he had :leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings,...
— Oct 17, 2025 01:50PM
1818 ...showed a resilient indifference in a letter to his publisher on this day. He was his now fiercest critic, after all: "My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict." With his "slipshod Endymion," he added, he had :leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings,...
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October 7
1924 Having finally read the manuscript of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom after spending two years attempting to arrange its publication, George Bernard Shaw reprimanded the young soldier about his punctuation: "You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of metal defectiveness, probably induced by camp life."
— Oct 17, 2025 11:27AM
1924 Having finally read the manuscript of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom after spending two years attempting to arrange its publication, George Bernard Shaw reprimanded the young soldier about his punctuation: "You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of metal defectiveness, probably induced by camp life."
