January 2009
20 posts
Novel Evolution →
“Why does storytelling endure across time and cultures? Perhaps the answer lies in our evolutionary roots. A study of the way that people respond to Victorian literature hints that novels act as a social glue, reinforcing the types of behaviour that benefit society.”
“It is impossible to reason someone out of something that he did not reason...”
– Jonathan Swift
Palaeobet →
“know your prehistory.”
To People Who Write in Library Books
Pardon me if for one brief moment I pause to contemplate the black and hideous character of those who write in library books. Should the teeming hosts of hell’s dominions meet in grant convention, amid the mysterious darkness and lurid flames of their eternal abode—should that infernal conclave of murderers, robbers, monsters of iniquity, perpetrators of damning crimes; possessors of black...
