More Noted Still
Ancient Dress: Mr. Sun! turns up evidence that my ansisters were"sluts."
Farewell: Here's a final farewell today to my cousin, Hunter S. Thompson. No whimpers for him. Gonzo killed himself with a bang and they're gonna disperse him with a bang.
An Outing: Jacob Gershman,"On the Trail of an Undercover Professor," New York Sun, 19 August, claims to have identified the pseudonymous author of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student. At Critical Mass, Erin O'Connor says that the outing was inevitable.
Rephotography: At no great matter, eb recommends exhibits of photographs taken from the same vantage many years apart. Three such exhibits are:"Urban Life Through Two Lenses," on Montreal in the 19th and 20th centuries,"Third View," of familiar geology and changing geography in the mountain West; and Berenice Abbott and Douglas Levere's"Changing New York," photographs taken in the 1930s and sixty years later.
Symbolic politics:"The Ministry of Reshelving" proposes to reshelve George Orwell's 1984 from literature to current events in book stores across the country."Timothy the Grouch" thinks it's not a great idea.