Fast Times at Viagra High

Fast Times at Brooksby High - The Boston Globe: "Marie asks Rick when his first wife had passed.'March 8.''Of 2004?Rick shakes his head. 'Two thousand and five.''Oh,' she says, putting her salad fork down and sitting back in her seat. 'Well, you didn't waste much time, did you?' She picks her fork back up and shrugs. 'Then again, we haven't got much time to waste.'"

Fast Times at Viagra High

Fast Times at Brooksby High - The Boston Globe: "Marie asks Rick when his first wife had passed.'March 8.''Of 2004?Rick shakes his head. 'Two thousand and five.''Oh,' she says, putting her salad fork down and sitting back in her seat. 'Well, you didn't waste much time, did you?' She picks her fork back up and shrugs. 'Then again, we haven't got much time to waste.'"

God save the heretic

God save the heretic - Sunday Times - Times Online: "Jonathan Swift observed that the problem with religion was that there wasn%u2019t enough of it around: %u201CWe have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.%u201D Three centuries on there is even less of it around and we still hate each other."

Harold Bloom

Eurozine - Articles:
"Every article about you mentions your amazing ability to read and remember. My question then is what do you forget?"

Shakespeare Again?

Four centuries and four decades after his birth, William Shakespeare not only remains the most compelling literary and cultural presence in our language but also attracts audiences and readers in the millions around the globe. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio—"He was not of an age, but for all time!"—has become prophecy rather than exaggeration, and Shakespeare's great competitor might have been astonished (and slightly chagrined) to find popular, professional, and scholarly interest in Shakespeare far more extensive today than it was in 1623.

http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2005/Heberle.html