Tom Turdman
A Night-Man's Scavengings
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
How to Make Your Way in a Crowd
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Way in a crowd," The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick , edd. Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, Vol. I (Oxf...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
As Sweet as the Perfumes of Arabia
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Brian Sewell, Outsider II, Always Almost: Never Quite (London: Quartet, 2012), p. 57 (on Salvador Dali): His breath was always foul, som...
Monday, July 21, 2014
Eulogy of a Fart
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Yong Yap and Arthur Cotterell, The Early Civilization of China (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975), p. 213: A most distinguished scho...
Friday, July 18, 2014
You Go Eat It!
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Heiko A. Oberman, Luther: Man Between God and the Devil , tr. Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart (c1989; rpt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 200...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
A Prayer
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Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (New York: Viking Penguin, 2013), pp. 166-167: And talking about rules, the two of them had all th...
What to Say When Someone Breaks Wind
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Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random , chapter XXXIV: Heaven preserve me! I am suffocated! Fellow, fellow, away with thee. Curse thee, fellow...
Monday, March 31, 2014
A Vessel
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Robert Southey, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (Bristol: Bulgin and Rosser, 1797), p. 32: On entering the...
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