Via Heidi: Libraries Remember September 11, 2001. Linda Hall Library is participating:
The Linda Hall Library will be open the 24 hours of September 11, 2003, in commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001, and in recognition of the strength and spirit of this nation and its libraries for their support of freedom of expression and access to information.
The library will close at 5:00 p.m. on September 10, and will re-open at midnight and remain open through midnight, September 11.
The other day I was going through some old digital photos and came across this picture of a few pigeons on a windowsill across the alley from our apartment.
Now why did I take this picture? Who would be interested in the birds across the alley?
I feel a bit weird about doing this, like I’m leaving the keys in the ignition or something, but I’ve decided to share with y’all this proposal I’ve just submitted for an ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 2004 panel on the history of reading. This grows out of research in Manchester that I wrote about earlier this summer and will eventually make its way into my book. I welcome feedback.
“Pillage and slaughter have emptied the earth of entire peoples.”
–Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 2265-2266
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
-Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”
USA Today is hosting an online chat today with comic book author, and subject of the current film American Splendor, Harvey Pekar.