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The honey locust tree some blocks from here is dropping pods: Years ago, in Vienna, I saw carob pods sold as "Johannisbrot", evidently from a tradition that these were the "locusts" John the Baptist ate in the desert.

Some years ago, I noticed a handsome, narrowly growing oak tree on 16th St.

In Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary, Anthony Kenny writes of Gilbert Ryle that he once was challenged by a woman to say whether he ever read a novel.

The president thinks that the US Navy should move the islands (the superstructures) on aircraft carriers farther back, apparently so that they would look better to him.

At my high school, a couple of old two-story buildings in white brick survived from the days when an orphanage had occupied the property.

A Little Free Library around the corner yielded a paperback of David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.

A friend has mentioned the legend that German students of philosophy would learn English to be able to read Norman Kemp Smith's translation of The Critique of Pure Reason.

From Sunday's New York Times, I learned of "the maelstrom unleashed" by the writer Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir.

I have never read Macaulay's histories.

Sunday's New York Times Book Review included a review by Clancy Martin of Emily Eakin's The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, a book on the French postmodernists.

In Chapter XXIX of Two Years Before the Mast Dana wrote of a time of hard physical labor, packing a ship with hides to be carried around Cape Horn to Boston, that During all this time,--which would have startled Dr.

I have read of the discipline of a nightly "twenty lines of Homer", which I suppose to include construing, perhaps after copying out, twenty (Greek) lines of The Iliad or The Odyssey every night.

On Tuesday, I happened to look at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (RPO) site.

The preface to Descartes's Principles of Philosophy includes I would suggest reading it all the way through, like a romance, without greatly straining one's attention, or being held up by any difficulties one encounters, so as simply to get a general idea…

Noticed today in The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield: Important writing, strange to say, seldom gives the exact flavor of its period; if it is successful, it presents you with the soul of man, undated.

My brother sent me a link to an article in The Denver Post to the effect that the University of Denver is shutting down two departments, of Religious Studies and of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In 1992, a number of academic philosophers signed a letter to The Times of London, suggesting that the electors at Cambridge University vote against granting an honorary degree to Jacques Derrida.

The New York Times says that some young playwright's career is moving at warp speed.

According to The New York Times, two businesses are starting newspapers in Washington, one to be called The Star, one The Washington Star.

A while ago, a friend gave me a copy of The Neo-Kantian Reader.

Happening to look at the Little Free Library at Midgely Corner today, I saw a hardbound book, VB6 by Mark Bittman.

The New York Times has an obituary of Peter G.

In Roughing It, Mark Twain writes of a mining companion, Mr.

Last week, the The Washington Post reported that Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala was elevated from auxiliary bishop of the Washington Archdiocese to Bishop of West Virginia.

I thought the expression "a university the football team can be proud of" came from the Marx Brothers' movie Horsefeathers.

I have now and then complained about the sloppy practices of businesses that specialize in printing works that are in the public domain.

On 30 September 1645, Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia wrote to René Descartes a letter including To benefit from the particular truths you mention, we would need an exact knowledge of all these passions and preconceptions, of which most people are unaware.

The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, March 29, included the clue "Odd-numbered page" for the word "recto".

The Gutenberg project this week feature among other books Volume II of Alexander Herzen's My Life and Thoughts.

About forty years ago, The Washington Post published a review of a biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, I suppose the one by Edward Rice.