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Composed in a university dining hall in December, while at a loss as to what to write: I think I don’t write poetry because I lack an aim (Besides you cannot write a thing with Christmas music in your ear) And counting iambs takes too long; I don’t know h…
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Among the turns of phrase discussed in “The Elements of Eloquence” by Mark Forsyth (Published by Berkley Books 2013), tricolon is one of the most recognizable even if the name is unfamiliar.
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Background I have noticed that many doors at my university make whistling noises when subject to pressure differences or passing wind.
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Some odd and memorable things I’ve seen as graffiti, latrinalia (things written on bathroom walls), and stickers; “For rectal use only” on a sticker on a bit of exposed pipe on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
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Disclaimers: “Hieroglyphs Without Mystery” is over 30 years old and is a translation of a German Book published several decades earlier.
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Introduction I am very much indebted to a later edition of “The Friendly Stars” (written by Martha Evens Martin, edited Donald Howard Menzel, with illustrations by Ching Sung Yü — Published by Dover Publications 1966, originally published 1907) for my kno…