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In Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush there are two poems about stumbling upon the long-undisturbed home of an ancient native person; “To An Ancient” and “A Cliff Dwelling.” The second, in particular is an almost exact description of the scene f

In this article from Noted, I was reminded of S., a novel-ish piece of media I read a number of years ago. It was mostly forgettable, or at least I barely

Something interesting I just noticed on Wikipedia (let me stop you right there, yes, I know, but if I didn’t post comments about something I found in Wikipedia, I’d barely post here at all): Robert Frost, born 1874, has the middle name Lee.

The Poems Ancient and Modern substack had a good post that put into words something I have vaguely thought but not

Something interesting happens in the whale butchering sequence of Moby Dick. Melville creates a very strange metaphor, speaking about the biology of the whale’s head: What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! f

Tonight in his Christmas vigil homily, our pastor referenced Robert Frost’s Death of the Hired Man: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” I didn’t fully catch his point, I was wrestling a squirrel

I came across this quote thrown, more or less tangentially, into an article about other things: Since, as Saul Bellow said at his funeral, “Allan [Bloom]’s idea

Several times throughout the first few chapters of Moby Dick, Melville goes off on an extended sentence or paragraph of assonant lists. I grabbed a couple that jumped out at me from Chapter 5: The bar-room was now full

I was surprised while reading Moby Dick to see the price of a drink at a bar described as “The Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.” The book was written in 1851, and seemingly set in the same time period. Wh

It’s no secret the Cardinals need pitching, pitching, pitching this offseason. They have a decent number of likely average-ish arms, but what they really need is a top-tier pitcher or two to separate themselves from the pack. We can assume they’ll