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As we begin the process of clearing out last week in anticipation of this week, we are finding lots of fun stuff that we would be remiss in not sharing. For example, a lament on too many visitors to a library. Truly, it is a problem. Hordes of common folk filling spaces meant to be occupied by true scholars and whatnot. It is more evidence of the decline of Western civilization. Next thing you know, there will be fast food in libraries*. Customers of the British Library (see previous for the travails of that institution) are not happy that the

In some households, people do things like talk. For example (and this is where a vivid imagination comes in handy), a wife might say to a husband, “Look honey, George Saunders news.” The husband, a noted Saunders fan, would immediately respond with something like, “Thank you for always looking out for my particular interests.” Then some mushy stuff would happen. Around here, we just post items of interest on our blog and hope the husband follows the link. If he does, he’ll learn helpful information like this: Did you know…George Saunders can construct an extended metaphor on writing fearlessly that

We were fascinated by the Foetry.com concept a year ago; we are not so fascinated now. Which is sort of a shame because things have gotten really exciting over the past several weeks. Who knew there was so much intrigue in iambic pentameter (probably we should look up the spelling of that, but chances are we’ll forget)? We are committing the cardinal sin of assuming others have covered this extensively and/or understand the layers of issues involved. If poetry or foetry is your thing, well, you’re probably in the wrong place because we are here only to delight in the