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I’d love to quote the conclusion of Nancy’s Apology: Harry Potter and the Eerie Silence, but that just wouldn’t be cool. It’s longish for a blog post, and worth every moment spent.
I don’t think it was the pagan or magic aspects of the Potter books that drove the conservatives nutty: I think it was the [...]

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On Friday 26 August 1664, Samuel Pepys mentions William Penn.
This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, Sir William’s son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A most modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman.

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Yesterday I planted a Korean Mountain Ash (Sorbus alnifolia) in memory of Barbara at Jan and Ken Hoffman’s house in Amherst. It’s in the back pasture, not far from the copse, nicely positioned to get plenty of sun. The Korean Mountain Ash has very pretty leaves (“alnifolia” means alder-like leaves), dark green and serrated, that [...]

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One of the knitting blogs I follow: DancesWithWool: Farewell to the King. Mind you, she did this in about three months.

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If wikipedia can be believed, it’s true: International Dadaism Month – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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But this one’s a bit more, well, out of the mainstream, shall we say? But just as fascinating. Street Anatomy · Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery (via Andrew Sullivan)

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At Astronomy Picture of the Day, take a look at “A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons,” the image for August 14, 2007.

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No, not trollop! I’m reading Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire, in a very nice 1950 hardbound pocket edition from The World’s Classics, published by Oxford University Press. The binding is 3/4 red cloth with gold fleur-de-lys, with a cream spine and red title inset on the spine. And there’s a little ribbon bookmark. I have [...]

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