by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
"It is the nature of man as he grows older…to protest against change, particularly change for the better." John Steinbeck
However, current changes proposed for the American people and our government are definitely not for the better. See Project 2025 Ideas Have Failed Before.
And so today, SO’W departs from the hateful realm of US politics to
Tag: literature
Astrology in Moby Dick
” Halloa! here’s signs and wonders truly! That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto. I’ll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll’s arithmetic, I’ll try my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar. Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; and the sun, he’s always among ’em. Hem, hem, hem; here they are–here they go–all alive:–Aries, or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull and Jimimi! here’s Gemini himself, or the Twins. […]
Astrology And Literature: Jane Eyre Vs. Elizabeth Bennett, Cage Match!
“The note was imediately dispatched, but the rider was met with a group of freshly unearthed zombies on the road and dragged off to his demise. The note was dispatched a second time with more success, and its contents as quickly complied with.”
–Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith