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Official Tolkien Site - Writing, Painting, Letters. J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943)

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PROFILES IN SCIENCE Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed. If there was one thing he was good at, it was teaching himself a subject that interested him. He'd wormed his way into the field of biology and written papers embraced by its practitioners. He was confident he could crack the code of Shakespeare studies as well.

“Embedded in the narrative of Moby–Dick is a metaphysical blueprint of the United States. Melville fills the book with telling similes and metaphors that allow a story set almost entirely at sea to evoke the look and feel of America in 1850” (Philbrick 62).

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Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics alike to think as a free man. Douglass risked mockery, abuse, beating and even death to study the likes of Socrates, Cato and Cicero.

Long after Douglass’s encounters with these ancient thinkers, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would be similarly galvanized by his reading in the classics as a young seminarian — he mentions Socrates three times in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”

The Western canon is an extended dialogue among the crème de la crème of our civilization about the most fundamental questions. The Western canon is, more than anything, a conversation among great thinkers over generations that grows richer the more we add our own voices and the excellence of voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America and everywhere else in the world. We should never cancel voices in this conversation, whether that voice is Homer or students at Howard University. For this is no ordinary discussion.

Cornel West on Howard University’s removal of the Classics DepartmentCornel West is a professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University

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ho·mo·phone
ˈhäməˌfōn,ˈhōməˌfōn/
noun
plural noun: homophones

each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, e.g., new and knew.
- each of a set of symbols denoting the same sound or group of sounds.

Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

He may be one of the most important figures in the history of 20th- century literature, yet he never published a word. Instead it was in dying that this man made his mark. He was an Italian soldier stationed in a trench along the Piave River in northern Italy during World War I. On a summer’s night in the final year of the war, he stood directly in front of 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway, who was distributing candy and cigarettes as a Red Cross volunteer. When an Austrian mortar landed near the soldier, he was killed instantly. Hemingway sustained extensive wounds but survived because the soldier’s body took the brunt of the explosion. Had it not been for the soldier there would be no “The Sun Also Rises,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “The Old Man and the Sea.”

Too Much Self-Reliance?
“Self-Reliance.” Did the great Ralph Waldo Emerson get it wrong? Have we? Have we turned self-reliance into self-centeredness?
Early in the heart of the 19th Century, young America was in trouble. A brutal economic bust. Banks collapsing all over. Confidence, wavering. And here came the brilliant transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, like a blazing star.
Trust yourselves, he said. Look inside. Speak what you think in hard words. Above all, embrace self-reliance. And boy did that go deep. It’s American bedrock. Maybe too deep, says my guest today. It’s become self-centeredness. Polarizing rigidity.
This hour, On Point: Emerson, and the most American debate – can you have too much self-reliance?
Too Much Self-Reliance?“Self-Reliance.” Did the great Ralph Waldo Emerson get it wrong? Have we? Have we turned self-reliance into self-centeredness?

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Dictionary.com. (2017). Homophone | Define Homophone at Dictionary.com. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homophone

Evans, Andrew. "BBC - Travel - How Irish Falconry Changed Language." BBC - Homepage, BBC, 19 Jan. 2017, www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170111-how-irish-falconry-changed-language. Accessed 20 Jan. 2017.

Kent, Rockwell. Moby-Dick. Illustrations. 1930. Accessed 8 May 2017.

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Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why Read Moby-Dick? Penguin, 2012,

Ralph Waldo Emerson, circa 1857. (George Eastman House Collection)

"Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter." Psychology Today, 14 Mar. 2013, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter. Accessed 27 Sept. 2017.