wordses
great opening lines:
· In the beginning, and what not.
great opening lines:
· In the beginning, and what not.
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another year of indiscriminate reading, not quite as prolific as in some years past, mainly because of the time spent working on the woodruff chronicle ---
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years” War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistence, 1917-2017 (2020)
Liz Cheney, Oath
and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (2023)
***Peter
Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story (2023)
Jonathan
Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (2023)
**Joshua
Hammer, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, and their race to save the
world’s most-precious manuscripts (2016)
**Richard
Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of
Knowledge (2020)
*Ben Wilson, Metropolis:
A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention (2020)
Adam
Rutherford, How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and don’t) Say
About Human Differences (2020)
**Barbara F.
Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (2022)
***Jeff
Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War (2023)
**Hugh Howard, Architects
of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and
the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces (2022)
**James
Crawford, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World (2022)
Kevin Kruse and
Julian Zelizer, Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and
Lies About our Past (2022)
*Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra,
A Life (2010)
**Christopher
Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English
Revolution (1972)
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as of today, i have a living will, a dead will, and beneficiaries installed for this and that, but have not yet arranged for disposition of my "remains," as it were, nor for any death mask or monumental sculpture ---
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UGA press's publication next fall of the coochee history remains on track, and i have wound up the columbus woodruffs' family history project to their satisfaction, and mine --- i might rework it into something publishable, should i get in the mood to do that, but for now it's their's with a fork in it ---
meantime, i continue to watch the toulouse requiem, as i call it, most evenings
and the animals continue to aggravate mePosted by tomitron at 11/14/2023 07:15:00 PM 1 comments
from sinclair with kitty bob
Posted by tomitron at 8/28/2023 09:52:00 PM 1 comments
Dog days bright and clear / Indicate a good year; / But when accompanied by rain, / We hope for better times in vain
coochee is resting or gestating or whatever, quietly --- but i'm deep in the weeds with the woodruff project
the juggler continues to keep me up late, almost every night, and almost always keeping it festive --- which i like lots better than bailing you-know-who out of foreclosure, for the umpteenth time --- some things fester to a head, and i think my relationship with him is near that point
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this made a lot of people happy during the covid lockdowns --- still does
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the coochee history is mostly done but still a lot of permissions-to-publish for images and what not —my "Woodruff Chronicle," tracing their lives from Connecticut to Columbus is now back on the table, and going strong — james waldo woodruff (1879–1963) is the star in the last part
i'm supposed to be retired so all this writing and responding to people and what not is driving me a little crazy —
Posted by tomitron at 6/21/2023 10:23:00 PM 0 comments
from UGA Press:
Great to chat with you earlier today. As promised, I'm writing to let you know that our Faculty Editorial Board unanimously (and enthusiastically) approved your manuscript, "A History of Sautee Nacoochee," for publication earlier this afternoon. Congratulations!
That means that we'll be ready to transmit the project to our managing editor to get the copyediting process started as soon as you submit the finalized manuscript and art program. I am expecting to receive the final MS and art program by 15 June 2023. If anything changes, please just let me know as soon as you know! As things sit, your book is slated to publish in our Fall 2024 season (think October-ish). If that presents a problem of any sort, just let me know.
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570