Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Violet Apple by David Lindsay

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In sorting some large piles of research notes there emerged an advertisement for the first publication of David Lindsay's The Violet Ap...
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Monday, August 5, 2019

Pronouncing "Cabell"

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The source of the rhymed couplet, "Tell the rabble / My name is Cabell" (discussed briefly in my previous post ), is still unknown...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Worlds Imagined: An Exhibition of Maps

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In 2017-2018, the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University hosted an exhibit on Worlds Imagined: The Maps of Imag...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

A Dunsany quote from James Blish?

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In his Guest of Honor speech at EasterCon 21 in London in 1970 ( audio, with illustrations, here ), James Blish gave a supposed quote from L...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Further on the Grill/Binkin Lovecraft Collection

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Back in March, I wrote on the Lovecraft Collection of Jack Grill and (later) of Irving Binkin.  It's posted here .  This is a follow-u...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

C.S. Lewis on the Covers of 1940s American Magazines

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It is well-known that C.S. Lewis appeared on the front cover of Time magazine in the 1940s.  The specific issue date was that of 8 Septembe...
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Monday, July 1, 2019

A Christopher Morley Quote Produced a Conundrum

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It began with a quotation attributed to Christopher Morley (1890-1957). A nice quote, for which the source is usually not given. Yet an inte...
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