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Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
New Bill Bryson
I always enjoy his books. The new one is about the "mysteries of the home".
Article at the Guardian.
"Eating forks were thought comically dainty and unmanly – and dangerous, too, come to that. Since they had only two sharp tines, the scope for spearing one's lip or tongue was great, particularly if one's aim was impaired by wine and jollity. Manufacturers experimented with additional numbers of tines – sometimes as many as six – before settling, late in the 19th century, on four as the number with which people seemed most comfortable. Why four should induce the optimum sense of security isn't easy to say, but it does seem to be a fundamental fact of flatware psychology."
Article at the Guardian.
"Eating forks were thought comically dainty and unmanly – and dangerous, too, come to that. Since they had only two sharp tines, the scope for spearing one's lip or tongue was great, particularly if one's aim was impaired by wine and jollity. Manufacturers experimented with additional numbers of tines – sometimes as many as six – before settling, late in the 19th century, on four as the number with which people seemed most comfortable. Why four should induce the optimum sense of security isn't easy to say, but it does seem to be a fundamental fact of flatware psychology."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
the punkrocker and the photographer
patti smith just came out with a biography.
the focus is on her youth, in particular her relationship with robert Mapplethorpe.
"“Just Kids” captures a moment when Ms. Smith and Mapplethorpe were young, inseparable, perfectly bohemian and completely unknown, to the point in which a touristy couple in Washington Square Park spied them in the early autumn of 1967 and argued about whether they were worth a snapshot. The woman thought they looked like artists. The man disagreed, saying dismissively, “They’re just kids.”"
nyt book review here
the focus is on her youth, in particular her relationship with robert Mapplethorpe.
"“Just Kids” captures a moment when Ms. Smith and Mapplethorpe were young, inseparable, perfectly bohemian and completely unknown, to the point in which a touristy couple in Washington Square Park spied them in the early autumn of 1967 and argued about whether they were worth a snapshot. The woman thought they looked like artists. The man disagreed, saying dismissively, “They’re just kids.”"
nyt book review here
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