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Gimbling in the Wabe – Curling Up With a Good Book, Redoux

Published on : 6 February, 20156 February, 2015 Published by : Sharon Browning

This is a reworking of a Gimbling in the Wabe I wrote in back in 2013, but it felt especially relevant today as the temperature here took a nose dive. The Mighty Belle and I still made it out to the Lake of the Isles, though! I hope you’ll allow […]

Gimbling in the Wabe – Karma in the Snow

Published on : 16 January, 201516 January, 2015 Published by : Sharon Browning

The Mighty Belle and I got busted the other day. My fault. I know that letting your dog run free in a city park risks a $140 fine, which is why I take Belle to the licensed off-leash park every weekday. But this was the weekend, and we needed a […]

On this day, October 20, in 1958, actor Viggo Mortensen was born in New York City. Although we could press the literary connection by pointing out that he is a published poet, we are really celebrating his birthday because, well, he’s Viggo Mortensen, who, among other roles, stepped in last minute to play Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, who chipped his tooth while filming and wanted to superglue it back in so they could keep shooting, who deflected a live dagger in a memorable fight scene, who campaigned to have Aragorn speak more Elvish in the films, who adopted the two horses he rode in the films because he had bonded with them… Today, he turns 62.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – Curling Up With a Good Book, Redoux

Gimbling in the Wabe – Karma in the Snow

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