A Shiver in the Archives

"Denizens of the archives have driven themselves into sweet oblivion by pursuing false leads down cold trails to dead ends, by amassing bulging but frequently useless dossiers, and by probing dull monographs . . . yet sometimes there comes a great notion." "A Shiver in the Archives" by Gale E. Christianson

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

H.G. Wells's Boneheaded Review of Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors

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The Saturday Review (London), 11 January 1896, pp. 48-49 “The Three Impostors.”   By Arthur Machen. London: John Lane. 1895. M...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The Library Book

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The Library Book is a smallish anthology published in the UK in 2012 to support and celebrate public libraries, which are threatened all ...
Monday, August 29, 2016

More on "Shon ap Shenkin" / "Sion ap Siencyn"

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I recently happened upon not one but two unrelated references to the traditional Welsh fairy story of "Shon ap Shenkin" (or "...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Alan Garner on Writing

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I recently watched the DVDs of the 1969-70 Granada series The Owl Service , scripted by Alan Garner himself.  I can't say that I enjoyed...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Perspectives of Creators

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I recently discovered a recording of George Gershwin (1898-1937) playing a version for piano of his own composition Rhapsody in Blue , which...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Matters of Perspective: Dunsany and Yeats

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In 1934 Lord Dunsany was presented the Harmsworth Prize from the Irish Academy of Letters for his novel The Curse of the Wise Woman (193...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Intensive Research

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A quote for the day: “Intensive research, even by the most competent researcher, is wasted, unless the results are put together and pr...
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