A Boat Against the Current

“Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not in...

Six years ago, as the hours of the old year ticked away, I rushed to finish writing about a  significant literary milestone: the 500 th ann...

“[I]f the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or...

“His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake, And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake. Yet he was, in his youth...

“I am a bat that wheels through the air of Fate; I am a worm that wriggles in a swamp of Disillusionment; I am a despairing toad; ...

“I have a frightful attack of rheumatism.   I’m afraid I sang too much.”— Poet ( The Waste Land ) T.S. Eliot, nobody’s idea of a cut-up...