Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Dec. 25, 2010)
Dawn (1899) An angel robed in spotless white Bent down and kissed the sleeping night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it dawn. …Paul Laurence Dunbar Inaptly […]
Dawn (1899) An angel robed in spotless white Bent down and kissed the sleeping night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it dawn. …Paul Laurence Dunbar Inaptly […]
Riddle (Answer below) What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a hundred years? Countdown Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. […]
A Message to Garcia (Extract) In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United […]
Double Vision To have another language is to possess a second soul. …Charlemagne From the Trivia File The sunflower does not turn to the sun. On the same stem may be seen flowers in […]
Athens and Truth The virtue of the ancient Athenians is very remarkable in the case of Euripides. This great tragic poet, though famous for the morality of his plays, had introduced a person who, being […]
Old English Proverb When the husband drinks to the wife, all would be well; When the wife drinks to the husband, all is. On Originality The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating […]
Riddle (Answer below) Present somewhere in this slight confusion, Uniquely oblique in its direction, Zealously look and find the connection, Zigzagging unto the ultimate line, Lingering but briefly on its design. Inquisitive minds the truth […]
Chinese Proverb A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Double Duty Italian is the only language in which the word vago (vague) also means “lovely, […]
Quite a Crowd Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really […]
Eternal Problem To make a speech immortal you don’t have to make it everlasting. …Lord Leslie Hore-Belisha From the Word Lab Rhythms is the longest English word without a vowel (a, e, i, o, u). […]
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