Soaking up the last gobs of human knowledge still available only from printed literature, before they all get transferred online
Sunday, November 18, 2018
007 Running Water (novel)
As of November 18, 2018, the entry for the 1906 adventure novel by A.E.W. Mason Running Water does not mention that it is almost certainly (given its plot) the intended referent in the following passage from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: "The book was something by A.E.W. Mason, and I was reading a wonderful story about a man who had been frozen in the Alps and then fallen into a glacier and disappeared [...]" etc.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
022 Isaac Casaubon
As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...
-
The entry on the 1993 episode of The Simpsons (penned by that great lover of old-times Americana John Swartzwelder) "Krusty Gets Kancel...
-
The article on the John Greenleaf Whittier poem " The Barefoot Boy " does not yet mention that the poem is referenced by Mr. Burns...
-
As of November 19, 2018, the entry for Willa Cather's 1923 novel One of Ours mentions that Hemingway once deprecated the realism of its...
No comments:
Post a Comment