The sort of fact which you'd really rather not know, like Lizzie Borden being acquitted, or that E.E. Cummings didn't lowercase his name
Knew these facts. And I love it. I geek out with useless knowledge all the time.
'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The sort of fact which you'd really rather not know, like Lizzie Borden being acquitted, or that E.E. Cummings didn't lowercase his name
Knew these facts. And I love it. I geek out with useless knowledge all the time.
So how did E. E. Cummings start being written e.e. cummings? I completely didn't know this (or that Lizzie Borden was acquitted. I love buffistas!).
What's porphyria? I looked it up at dictionary.com, but they just said abnormalities in the blood, etc.
So how did E. E. Cummings start being written e.e. cummings? I completely didn't know this
Because he broke rules with his poetry in punctuation and spelling, so people started putting his name in without the capitals, assuming that he would have done so. Not so.
So how did E. E. Cummings start being written e.e. cummings?
In his own writing, he never was -- his use of lower case for things like the beginnings of sentences and the pronoun "I" (or rather "i", I guess you could say) was something he was incredibly picky about in his poetry (and his normal-looking uppercase signature), but sloppy editing has classed him as the all-lower-case guy for at least 50 years.
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24: They just said that a warhead disappeared somewhere in Iowa or Illinois. When the "president" asked why satellites didn't pick it up, Mike replied "Well, it's mountainous terrain!Huh? I grew up on that border and I don't remember any MOUNTAINS!
What's porphyria? I looked it up at dictionary.com, but they just said abnormalities in the blood, etc.
It's actually a group of metabolic disorders with a fairly wide range of symptoms that can include psychiatric ones.
Cindy, it's also associated with vampirism because some conditions of porphyria can include blistering and burning of the skin when exposed to sunlight.
E. E. Cummings
Wow.
When I was in college, my geology professor went to some meeting in Indiana, and a geology professor there showed him the geologic sights as a courtesy. He (the Indiana guy) showed him a ridge. My professor asked where it was. He literally couldn't see it. The Indiana guy got a little peeved.
When I was in college, my geology professor went to some meeting in Indiana, and a geology professor there showed him the geologic sights as a courtesy. He (the Indiana guy) showed him a ridge. My professor asked where it was. He literally couldn't see it. The Indiana guy got a little peeved.
To be fair, the northern 2/3rds of Indiana got smooshed flat by the last ice age ice sheets. The lowest 1/3 is quite hilly.