I live for the moments when common sense wins over wild speculation, and this is one of those moments.

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Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, researcher claims By Chris Ciaccia After months of speculation surrounding a study ...

British-born American poet W.H. Auden (born Wystan Hugh Auden)

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Christopher Robin and his fiancee Lesley de Selincourt - 21st April 1948

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Imagination is more important than knowledge..- Albert Einstein

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Tis himself

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The books in a London library miraculously survives Blitz in the 1940s

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The Texas Foster Care System is so awful, a jury decided not allow CPS to have custody of 6-year-old boy.

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With a span of 18 months, a 6-year-old boy has been in the custody of Child Protective Services had been promised four times that h...

This week’s death in the world of foster care

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Nevaeh Gerrior, a 5-year-old foster child in Fall River Mass. died in a foster home in December of 2018.   A criminal investigation...

English

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And now a word from F. Scott

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Run!

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Art

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TO PRACTICE ANY ART, NO MATTER HOW WELL OR BADLY, IS A WAY TO MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW. SO DO IT.

Franny and Zooey

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He let his attention be drawn to a little scene that was being acted out sublimely, unhampered by writers and directors and producers, fi...

J.R.R. Tolkien once stole a city bus

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While attending Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien once stole a city bus and took his friends on a joy ride.

Wilde

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Reading

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How writers begin.................

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Carrie

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Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie, was rejected by 30 publishers before Doubleday bought it and paid him a $2,500 advance. The hardcover ...

Ransack

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Ransack carries the image of a house being roughly disarranged, as might happen when you are frantically searching for something. This is...

Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books

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Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books By Jessamyn West Jessamyn West (@jessamyn) is a librarian who l...

On reading

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BUT THE FIRST LESSON READING TEACHES IS HOW TO BE ALONE.

...and so on.

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Bookshelf

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How writers are made.................

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Well that punishment didn't work.

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On July 31st in 1703, Daniel Defoe (who wrote Robinson Crusoe) was put up on a pillory for public humiliation for writing a satirical pam...

If you haven't read Franny &Zooey, you really should read it.

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“ What happened was, I got the idea in my head–and I could not get it out–that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world ...

The list

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Actors are referred as Thespians out of respect for Thespis, the first known actor in written plays.

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Words like Juggernaut, Punch, Calico

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Words like Juggernaut, Punch, Calico and Shampoo were brought by the British Raj from India to the English language.

Literature is

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”— Fernando Pessoa; “The Book of Disquiet”

Is the Internet Making Writing Better?

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A new book argues that our richest, most eloquent language is found online. By Katy Waldman July 26, 2019 A common refrain ...

Do you know all 8 parts of speech in English?

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Do you know all 8 parts of speech in English? From blog.wordgenius.com Grade school grammar lessons drill the parts of speech int...

When should you use semicolons?

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When should you use semicolons? From blog.wordgenius.com Semicolons are one of the most misunderstood and under-utilized weapons ...

Fall In Love With the Written Word at These Literary Themed New England Hotels

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On vacation, readers and writers often attempt to settle down with a good book or an unfinished manuscript, respectively. But time on...