February 2011
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January 2011
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The Dosshouses of Spitalfields →
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside them, and it’s much...
– Neil Gaiman (via undreamedshorelines)
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It Was Now: Women's Suffrage vs. States' Rights →
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I can’t tell you how mind-blowing this letter from the United States National Archives is to me. As an independent woman of the twenty-first century, suffragettes inhabit the misty, vaguely steampunk land of the last centuries. I’m grateful to the legendary characters of the past, but when it…
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It Became Necessary to Destroy Huckleberry Finn in... →
“It’s one thing if the brutality of race relations in the United States in the years before the Civil War makes Alan Gribben uncomfortable—it’s another thing to create a deliberately false version of that society so he and like-minded educators can feel good about themselves. Gribben and NewSouth have not only done American literature a disservice, they have failed the students in any...
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Excerpt from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" (1926)
Piglet: "It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal..."
Rabbit: "It is because you're a very small animal that you'll be Useful in the adventure before us..."
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