Tag Archives: 20th Century

2017: Walt Whitman’s House

Posted on October 30, 2018 by corvusfugit

Marsden Hartley: Walt Whitman’s House, 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey (c. 1905) From 2017 Google Streetview: Whitman’s house today—now 328 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd—and the view from its windows, Camden County Jail: We two, how long we were … Continue reading →

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1868: Definition

Posted on October 20, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Wikipedia: Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでお, to pile things … Continue reading →

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1939: That Mighty Obstruction

Posted on October 7, 2018 by corvusfugit

Ernest Vincent Wright’s 1939 novel, Gadsby, was written without words that contain the letter “e.” Here is the opening: If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a … Continue reading →

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1950: Seascape

Posted on September 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

A seascape by mid-20th-century French artist Edouard Mandon; title and date unknown. I haven’t been able to find out much about him.

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1922: Landscape

Posted on September 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

Konstantin Bogaevsky: Landscape with Lake (1922)

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1994: You Bomb You!

Posted on September 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

Allen Ginsberg throwing out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on June 1, 1994. The team had invited him to be the first in a “City of Poets” series in which writers read their work before games. … Continue reading →

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1974: Author Awarded Avocado

Posted on September 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

The opening of Walter Abish’s 1974 novel, Alphabetical Africa: Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex’s admonition, against Allen’s angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all … Continue reading →

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1926: Moon

Posted on August 31, 2018 by corvusfugit

Frederick Judd Waugh: The Risen Moon (1926)

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1927: A Dawn Flight

Posted on August 30, 2018 by corvusfugit

Frederick Judd Waugh: A Dawn Flight; I guessed at the date.

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1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!

Posted on August 16, 2018 by corvusfugit

From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading →

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