Chimera words addendum
Even longer ones!
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Don’t bother sitting inside the Saint’s nose
And other travel commentaries by the Abbé Baruffi.
Continue reading “Don’t bother sitting inside the Saint’s nose”“See Murray’s guide-book!!”
But be aware that sometimes “Nothing can be farther from correct than Murray’s account of it.”
Continue reading ““See Murray’s guide-book!!””CCM’s witches
Caroline Crane Marsh (CCM) is generally fairly equanimous in her diaries, so I was surprised to see her use the word witch as an epithet for 5 women over the course of the diaries.
Continue reading “CCM’s witches”Adventuring myself into the diaries
Does that title strike you as odd? It does me, but one of the many fun things in reading Caroline Crane Marsh’s diaries is coming across older, now obsolete (or virtually) aspects of English, as is this use of adventure.
Continue reading “Adventuring myself into the diaries”“Alas for mortal ambitions!”
Caroline Crane Marsh didn’t just write about serious things in her diaries, and when she writes about her personal life, we get a view of her personality, which is often gently self-deprecating.
Continue reading ““Alas for mortal ambitions!””Caroline Crane Marsh diaries available
In thinking about the Alphabetical Diaries, I ended up exploring two other notable diaries. One is by Julia Wilbur, and is featured on my simulacrum of the Alphabetical Diaries. The other diary is by Caroline Crane Marsh (CCM), the American ambassadress (wife of the American ambassador) in Italy, for the period 1861-1865. I was so taken with CCM’s diaries that I decided to make an HTML version of the diaries that makes them a bit easier to read. I’ve also added a few different ways to browse and search the diaries, making use of the additional markup structure that I added to the diaries.
Continue reading “Caroline Crane Marsh diaries available”Dear Diarist, fun is where you find it! (part 1)
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade’s worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
From the book jacket for Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti (hard cover 2024 U.S. edition)
When I read a similar description of Alphabetical Diaries in a book review, I was intrigued about both how Heti did it and what the results were like. (You can read the “B” chapter via a link on her site.)
Continue reading “Dear Diarist, fun is where you find it! (part 1)”Now that you mention them …
All that work in identifying names in Photo-Era is paying off. I have started looking at some of the aspects of how people, but especially women, are mentioned in Photo-Era.
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