A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Quote of the Day (Blythe Roberson, on a Jane Austen Film Adaptation in the Distant Future)

“ Persuasion (2017): Released in the year 2117, this rare film adaptation of ‘Persuasion’ tells the story of an extremely elderly (tw...

Monday, May 27, 2019

Quote of the Day (Franklin Roosevelt, on Those Who Died to Win Our Freedom)

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." —Franklin D. Rooseve...

Sunday, May 26, 2019

‘70s Redux: ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’ Live

“Maude, Archie, Mike Stivic—they all talked about what they believed far more far more than they understood what they believed. They w...

Quote of the Day (St. Bernard of Clairvaux, on Grace and Free Will)

"Grace is necessary to salvation, free will is equally so; but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it...

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MikeT: I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand

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