A Phrase A Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Initially, the phrase associated with this form of hedging was 'hedging one's debts', for example, John Donne's Letters to Sir Henry Goodyere, circa 1620:"You think that you have Hedged in that Debt by a greater, by your Letter in Verse."'Hedging one's bets' was coined later in that century. It referred to the laying off of a bet by taking out smaller bets with other lenders. The...
The FanHouse - NFL (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Filed under: Bills , AFC East , NFL Media Watch George Herbert. Thomas Hobbes. John Donne. Marshawn Lynch . They are our great poets and we are willing to accept whatever they write as gospel. How can we not? After all, when you read the brilliance that they profess, you understand why whatever they're saying is relevant. whats good yb i no u aint heard from ya boi n a min but im still...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... and our place in it far smaller than had been imagined. The public impact was immediate. The poet John Donne, in 1611, wrote of "Galileo, … who of late hath summoned the other world, the stars to come nearer to him, and give him an account of themselves." But this new other world, as Donne also saw, had a negative side. The old universe of unity and proportion, crowned by a...
Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... a different alphabet to allude to this band’s otherness. I could even reach for the works of John Donne and Andrew Marvell and simply copy out a bunch of verses and say: “Here you go, it’s like a sonic version of that little lot”. However, this would be cheating. So I shall, instead, keep this review extremely short and state simply that RADIANCE OF SHADOWS contains some of the most...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
So Carol Rumens answers Philip Larkin ("They fuck you up/ Your mum and dad") with "Not everybody's/ Childhood sucked:/ There are some kiddies/ Not up-fucked." More collegiately, Elaine Feinstein praises Anna Akhmatova; Owen Sheers grapples with John Donne, and Roy Fisher harmonises with Thomas Hardy. Top prize for concision goes to "Trowel", Tony Curtis's reply to Allen Ginsberg's Beat...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
As the seasons change and we settle into autumn, I'm reminded once more that yet another year will soon pass and that we're all getting older. Or at least, the old people are. Check out the images below, picturing tech luminaries in their youths juxtaposed with more recent photos. You might find yourself in disagreement with the English poet John Donne, who wrote: "No spring, nor summer...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
... gets it in the form of love — and for some time even dares everyone who warns her against it with John Donne’s famous lines: “For god’s sake hold your tongue and let me love.” With everyone trying to marry her off, Devayani falls in love with Ashok Chinappa, the new district superintendent of police of Rajnur, who promises love and honesty but no future. As Devayani travels the treacherous...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... Historically the stuff that's sort of rung my cherries: Socrates' funeral oration, the poetry of John Donne, the poetry of Richard Crashaw, every once in a while Shakespeare, although not all that often, Keats' shorter stuff, Schopenhauer, Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" and "Discourse on Method," Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic," although the translations...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... did you become a psychiatrist'A. I was an English professor in the early 1960s. I'd done a book on John Donne. Then, in 1964, I gave birth to my first child and nearly died from a postpartum infection - the very thing that had killed millions of birthing women in the centuries before antibiotics.As I recovered, I realized I had been given back my life, and that caused me to rethink...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Seven years ago, Sept. 11, 2001, we all remember where we were and with whom and what we were doing. I was rushing off for my 9:25 AM class; it was my first semester as a tenure-track professor. Teaching John Donne in a class (17th Century British lit) otherwise full of obscurities has this bonus: [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
“No man is an island,” John Donne once wrote, as a poetic way of saying that we're all so interconnected that we're affected by what happens to those around us. Which is generally true, but some people – or companies – are more affected by what's happening with their neighbors than others.
A Bald Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Idly browsing on Wikipedia, I found myself with an old favourite poem, John Donne's Meditation XVII , replete with delicious quotations and phrases. Skipped from there to Valediction: Forbidding Mourning with its rather, ahem, specific compasses metaphor. Smiled, and browsed on. A scant twenty minutes later, a link on another site altogether mentioned that Stephen Fry had a morning slot...
Blogizdat (Just Think About It) (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls." John Donne
