Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

'Nor a Single Thing That Belongs to Us'

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“The atmosphere in Lwów , in November, December . . . A city that had lost its beauty, a city besieged by fear.”   The Polish poet Aleksan...
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Monday, December 08, 2025

'A Certain Self-Knowledge'

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For the sheer pleasure of it, here is a freely translated excerpt from the English poet-critic C.H. Sisson’s version of Horace’s Epistle II....
Sunday, December 07, 2025

'I Think We Forget Too Easily'

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Two of my stories were published on Page One of The Bellevue Gazette on December 7, 1981. The banner carries the headline “Proposal drafted...
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Saturday, December 06, 2025

'Quaffs, crams, and guttles'

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A new word discovered while reading John Dryden’s translation of the Sixth Satire of the Roman poet Persius :   “He sprinkles pepper with...
Friday, December 05, 2025

'The Greeks Knew What They Were Talking About'

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Age is dreaded for the supposedly inevitable loss of memory. We lose the past and dwell in a timeless, featureless present as blank as a mov...
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Thursday, December 04, 2025

'Never to Gain an Advantage'

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The closest I came to having a genuine argument with my late friend D.G. Myers , as brilliant a literary critic and scholar as I have known,...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

'To the Learning of Some Art or Science'

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A young reader finds himself attracted to and intimidated by the prospect of reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton (157...
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