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  • Parasols And the Queen of Sheba

    Here is another passage on the Ethiopian/Biblical history motif from the same book... (Timket Parasols. Thanks to google, photo found here.)And why do middle-aged women in long, white robes--picking their way along the …

  • "A monk known as the Keeper of the Ark stands guard"

    Excerpt from the book above, on Ethiopian (Abyssinian) monasteries and the ark of the covenant: (Two columns of the Ethiopic Text of the Book of the Glory of Kings of Ethiopia)One of natural history's beguiling mysteries…

  • (Fortification of Sultan Mehmet II: built on the narrowest point of the Bosphorous, so that he was able to control it - with help from the new canon.) While cleaning out some old files, I ran across this post that I h…

  • A noiseless patient spider,I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,Even unreeling them, ever …

  • Xanga continues to shut down my web browser, so I’m posting this from my sister’s computer. Thanks to Lady_Grey for tagging me for this! This is a fun one. 1. One book that changed your life: Doug Jones’ essay on the Co…

  • Tragedy is when you cut your finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. – Mel Allen Wouldn’t it be funny if we woke up and we were dead? – A. A. Burke http://www.darwinawards.com/

  • These are some notes on the poetry of Anne Bradstreet. They're not expressed or organized in a stunning fashion, but they are a collection of what has jumped out at me so far. -------- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) came f…