January 2011
102 posts
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
December 2010
108 posts
“When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most...”
– Musician Keith Richards (via librarianista)
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale.
projectgutenberg:
The presentation of gifts on Christmas day was an English custom of very great antiquity; so great that, in 1419, the practice had become much corrupted, and the abuse had to be sternly repressed.
- John Ashton, A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide (1894) [full text]
“As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (via liquidnight)
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
I wish I had pickpocket eloquence.
projectgutenberg:
ARS MUSICA. A bum fiddle.
- Francis Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence (1811) [full text]
“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of...”
– — Bill Hall, editorial page editor, Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, Sept. 9, 2001. (via lostbetweenthepages)
There are “boring old poops” in every profession. (via librarianista)
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can...”
– Isaac Asimov (via librarianista)
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via libraryland)
Oxford English Dictionary Expands Definition of... →
I want to know more about how the word “Information” started as an accusation.
courtenaybird:
We reported last August that the Oxford English Dictionary plans to cease print production for a completely online edition. Keeping with the digital spirit, the OED has expanded the entry on “information” to 9,400 words, tracing its origins in the fourteenth century as a form of accusation,...