Light posting...

...today. Here's a link to Moistworks, where a nice Richard Thompson song awaits, a real toe-tapper....Levi's been doing some great American history–related posts....Steve Burt on o.g. Alexander Pope....The menu at the International House of Breece D'J Pancakes could use some more suggestions...And Manohla Dargis hearts Colma: The Musical....(Here's our take from last July)....One last thing: I had a crazy dream involving the very first short story ever written. Do you know it? It was "A Short-Story of England," by Mr. Charles Dickens, written in 1893 and consisting primarily of charts and numbers!

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The Connections: Readymades

1. Two quotes read by Joyce Carol Oates at the Bookforum panel yesterday:

Criticism speaks, and all the arts are silent. —Northrop Frye

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure
Critics all are ready made. —Lord Byron

2. Two quotes found by me online yesterday:

Everyday is so surreal. —Britney Spears, homepage letter

Welcome to the surrealist world, which you never knew you inhabited. —J.G. Ballard, The Guardian

W is for...

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...and for "Dylan Hears a Who!" (Are there other "historical" cover versions I should be aware of?)