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Gentler Remedies Are Preferable

Posted on Saturday: June 7, 2014 by Michael Hendry

In A Perpetual Student, Laudator Temporis Acti notes a couple of misprints. Here is the second, from a paper by Joachim Latacz on Nietzsche: By now he has already received (from Leiden) the handwritten transcription of the time by Stephanus … Continue reading →

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“Bacon and Eggs”

Posted on Tuesday: October 29, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti quotes an amusing poem from 1931 by A. P. Herbert on the British fondness for bacon and eggs. There is an equally-amusing country song by the Lovett Sisters saying much the same about Americans in 1954. Here … Continue reading →

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Walter Scott Anagrammatized

Posted on Thursday: October 10, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti has an interesting post on Sir Walter Scott’s library. If you haven’t already read it, go and do so before continuing. Done? OK, let’s continue. I was naturally curious about the anagram, wondering how Scott’s library motto, … Continue reading →

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