I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet’s rim, the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun—slow dived from … [Read more]
This is a test, this is only a test.
But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then … [Read more]
Please Support Cannonball Read Today for #GivingTuesday
Though I don't write reviews for CBR, I'm definitely still reading—this year I've put a double Cannonball on my Goodreads "Read" shelf! And so, on this Giving Tuesday, I'm donating 50¢ per book I've read in 2022 to Cannonball Read! Who's with me? How many books have you read (and/or reviewed!) … [Read more]
testing a new post on the ides of November
this is a test to see if my badge increments. Five or six hours of pleasant railway travel, up the course of one river valley after another,—the Merrimac, the Pemigewasset, the Baker, the Connecticut, and finally the Ammonoosuc,—not to forget the best hour of all, on the shores of Lake … [Read more]