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Uncommon Content

 Ariella ― http://uncommoncontent.blogspot.com

Not your standard book reviews. This blog features posts on the long side. So far most are my reflections on ideas in books. I have shorter pieces that relate to writers at http://writewaypro.blogspot.com/

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Listed: Feb 23, 2012

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Happy (early) birthday, Shakespeare

Happy (early) birthday, Shakespeare

Uncommon Content ― I was wondering about April 23rd really being Shakespeare's birthday, given the shift from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. I found that addressed at bloggingtherenaissance.blogspot.com ∙ In fact, we don't have a record of ...

Tags: Birthday, Calendar, Shakespeare, England

Ariella ― 4 weeks 4 days ago

The most memorable part of a book

The most memorable part of a book

Uncommon Content ― I usually remember quite a bit from books I've read even years later. Sometimes I may forget the title and start reading a book only to realize I have read it before once I get to a more distinctive section. Then I will only read it again if it...

Tags: Image, Pearls, Plot, Fiction, Memory, Reading

Ariella ― 11 weeks ago

Dating Homer

Uncommon Content ― From Geneticists Estimate Publication Date of the "Iliad." ∙ Of course, publication is not exactly the term one would use for an oral work, which, as the research shows seemed to have grown out of various other oral traditions that go back...

Tags: Troy, Data, Linguistics, Classics, Iliad, Literature

Ariella ― 12 weeks ago

Don't tell me what to like or re-post

Don't tell me what to like or re-post

Uncommon Content ― When I see a post that includes the words "Like if you ..." or "Share if you ..." the last thing in the world I want to do is like or share. That's because they are sometimes absolutely inane and pointless. For example, one of my Facebook...

Tags: Absurdity, Facebook, Social Media

Ariella ― 13 weeks ago

New site

Uncommon Content ― I set up a new site at http://writewaypro.net

Ariella ― 13 weeks ago

The Big Bow-Wow & a Bit of Ivory

Uncommon Content ― Sir Walter Scott contrasted his style of writing with that of Jane Austen: "The big Bow-Wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of ...

Tags: Jockers, Austen, Scott, George Eliot, Big Data, Google

Ariella ― 14 weeks ago

Art reflecting life reflecting art

Art reflecting life reflecting art

Uncommon Content ― This week I saw the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for the first time. Among its recent acquisitions is a painting with photographic realism of the exhibit room in which it hangs. It's called Museum Epiphany III, and there's a very good write up of ...

Tags: Art, Copyright, Painting, Boston

Ariella ― 17 weeks ago

You say blue, and they said ...

Uncommon Content ― I just started reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's latest book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Among other things, he mentions the fact that Homer never mentions the color blue in his works and refers to Gladstones's theory that the ...

Tags: Bible, Linguistics, Color, Blue

Ariella ― 18 weeks ago

Dissertation on Charlotte Bronte

Uncommon Content ― I completed my dissertation so long ago that the file format was saved on the 3.5" disc. Even my computer can't read that any more. Happily, I do have a paper copy on hand and a husband who has access to a scanner that could handle more than a ...

Tags: Romanticism, Dissertation, Wordsworth, Gender, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte

Ariella ― 21 weeks ago

Beyond Pink

Beyond Pink

Uncommon Content ― [this is a post I originally wrote on another one of my blogs. I brought it out again here in honor of the month. ] ∙ Gayle A Sulike, PhD, a medical sociologist and 2008 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities for her work on...

Tags: Women, Ribbon, Breast Cancer, Girls, Barbie, Dolls

Ariella ― 33 weeks ago

What do Cynthia Ozick and Snoopy have in common?

Uncommon Content ― Their writing style and experience of rejection ∙ Cynthia Ozick's response to the routine of rejection from The New Yorker in a letter written on January 5, 1962 is one of the discoveries from the magazine's files shared in from...

Tags: Snoopy, Letter, Rejection, Cynthia Ozick, Poem, The New Yorker

Ariella ― 34 weeks ago

Representing 100 years of childhood

Uncommon Content ― Representing 100 years of childhoodAt the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day, we have created 90 percent of the data we have in just the past two years. And while 10 percent sounds small in comparison, working with the data of the past...

Tags: Childhood, Data, New York, Boys, Lego, American

Ariella ― 35 weeks ago

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