“Tell me what it is, Gretta. I think I know what is the matter. Do I know?” She did not answer at once. Then she said in an outburst of tears: “O, I am thinking about that song, The Lass of Aughrim.” She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and, throwing her arms across the bed-rail, hid her face. Gabriel stood stockstill for a moment in astonishment and then followed her. As he passed in the way of the cheval-glass he caught sight of himself in full length, his broad, well-filled shirt-front, the face whose expression always puzzled him when he saw it in a mirror, and his glimmering gilt-rimmed eyeglasses. He halted a few paces from her and said: “What about the song? Why does that make you cry?”

The Dead – Jame Joyce@Online Literature
James Joyce Bio@Books and Writers

“The american mathematician Edward Kasner once asked his nine-year-old nephew to invent a name for a very large number, ten to the power of one hundred; and the boy called it a googol. He thought this was a number to overflow people’s minds, being bigger than anything that can ever be put into words. Another mathematician then shot back with Googolplex, and defined it to be 10 to the power of Googol, proving poor old Edward wrong in an instance.”

“Thomas Thetcher’s grave is well known around the world because it was immortalised in the Alcoholics Anoymous Handbook in the story of the organsiation’s co-founder Bill Wilson. Wilson recalled visiting the Cathedral on a trip to England and having his attention caught by “a doggerel on an old tombstone”. He went on to quote the epitaph but conveniently ignored the advice to “drink Strong” beer and presented it as a warning against alcoholism. Small beer was in fact the staple drink of much of England until the Tea revolution towards the end of the 18th-century. Some workers would have been provided with free small beer by their employers and even children would have drunk it. Water was often unsafe to consume but the alcohol in small beer would have killed off several harmful pathogens.”

Mysterious Memorials@BBC History Magazine

“In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for independence chiefly rested. John was the orphan son of a younger brother, whose small property scarce could pay John’s college expences; but the uncle was rich, unmarried, and old; and John, from his infancy, had been brought up to look on him with that mingled sensation of awe, and of the wish, without the means to conciliate, (that sensation at once attractive and repulsive), with which we regard a being who (as nurse, domestic, and parent have tutored us to believe) holds the very threads of our existence in his hands, and may prolong or snap them when he pleases.”

Melmoth The Wanderer e-Book@Project Gutenberg
Cómprenlo@PenguinBooks
Charles Robert Maturin@Wikipedia

“Naturism began as a self-help reform movement in reaction to the debilitating aspects of industrialization and urbanization during the nineteenth century. At a time when medicine could neither explain nor cure disease, many people believed that crowded and unsanitary cities, tenement housing, restrictive victorian clothing, and oppressive working conditions all led to poor health and rampant illness. Some observers concluded that what people needed was exposure to the natural world.”

Brief History Of Naturism@Federation Of Canadian Naturists
What Is Naturism?@British Naturism

“Black Monday, October 19th 1987, was the day stockmarkets plunged; and Alan Greenspan, who won his central-banking spurs in that crisis, was the Fed chairman (see article). Two decades on, in the wake of this summer’s subprime squeeze, stockmarkets are showing similar faith in Ben Bernanke, Mr Greenspan’s successor. Despite bad news from the housing market and warnings from the treasury secretary, America’s equity markets are still higher than they were in May. Amazingly, investors have been buying both on good news (don’t worry, the economy is fine) and on bad (don’t worry, the Fed will come to the rescue by cutting rates).” Link@economist

“If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points.

This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes.

When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden” Orwell’s Eleven Rules.

“At the suggestion of Sire’s president and founder, Seymour Stein, the band began recording their first record, The Ocean Blue, in London in December 1988 with producer John Porter (Roxy Music, Billy Bragg, the Smiths). This record captures the youthful heights of the band – both good and bad – and contains the group’s most masterful pop tunes. After releasing the record in late summer, the band toured North America extensively.” Bio@theoceanblue.com

The Ocean Blue – Myron
The Ocean Blue
Sire Records 1989
Cómprenlo@Insound.com