A delightful and disturbing Hans Christian Andersen story about a shirt collar. I am steeping myself in the world of these tales this week, and finding it an interesting place to spend some time...
(It seems to me unlikely that Andersen would have known the Herbert poem.)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
"Too much traffic"
About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
A few pieces
Books
My other blogs
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(621)
-
▼
June
(52)
- Hundreds and thousands
- Canine costuming
- Probabilities
- Eel redux
- More eel
- Eel two ways
- More nibbly
- Second best tomorrow
- The 'traffic'
- Animal doubles
- Camp pie
- Lappish lusciousness
- Anagrams from home
- The Anti-Comma League
- Berlin walls
- Swag bellies
- "A kind of inevitable rotary way"
- Mule tape
- The size of a football or a pineapple
- The crash of skull against skull
- Verbal hooks
- Cheap laughs...
- The idea!
- Two lives
- Bohemian
- Hard peas
- "This is for me the new squid"
- Distant reading
- Thumbelina
- Collared
- The era of organisms
- "Don't let the demographic exclude you"
- "The child grew up and became a policeman"
- "It's my interview, so we've got to stay with me"
- "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!"
- Deranged penguins
- A PhD in sitting on kitchen counters
- Stonehenge!
- Bondishness
- Web-work mysteries
- A 9 by 9 array
- "Too much traffic"
- Atlantomania
- The canonization
- "A thoroughly alternative night out"
- Rapscallions?
- Light reading update
- Cross-referenced
- Dollar night
- 100 de-bleated goats
- Stray opuscules
- "Something black, something canine"
-
▼
June
(52)
No comments:
Post a Comment