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Author: penwithlit
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Remembering Samuel Johnson
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À tous les sables du ciel
parce qu’on a toujours des herbes dans le sang je plaide pour la verdure je plaide pour la quiétude dans les forges du moment et pour les soleils marbrés qui cognent partout sur les dalles du temps qui reviennent jouer dedans avec tous les vents à la vie voulue à l’été éternel et je vénère […]
À tous les sables du ciel
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Reading Red Shelley
This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man. My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a cover, blurbs from four of my idols in disparate fields, and a foothold on Amazon. The people I approached to endorse, […]
From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
John Dalton, born September 6, 1766, revolutionized science with atomic theory and the vocabulary it introduced. Terms like atomic weight, Dalton’s law, and Daltonism transformed English scientific discourse, embedding precision, clarity, and new concepts into chemistry, physics, and philosophy. His lexicon shaped both laboratories and cultural imagination.
Birth of John Dalton – Atomic Theory and the Evolution of Scientific English
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