1852 / 2025
“There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.”
— Frederick Douglass. Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester [. . .] July 5th, 1852. Published by Request. Rochester : Printed by Lee, Mann & Co, 1852.
The single most persuasive reminder that there is more than one history of America.
James Earl Jones performed the Oration, here :
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/4/what_to_the_slave_is_the
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in today’s mail (5 July)
— Mark Valentine. Borderlands and Otherworlds. Tartarus Press, [2025].
Colkection of 32 essays on books and reading, with an emphasis on the fantastic and supernatural in the interear years and into the 1950s. The original edition has sold out but a paperback is reported in production.
recent reading :
— Muchael Innes. The Secret Vanguard [1940]. An Inspector Appleby Mystery. Open Road Integrated Media, [POD 30 June 2025].
“For an artist has a right to work with quotations if they are his medium, and daisies and buttercups which were not these flowers purely but these flowers plus a little Cowper and a little Crabbe . . .”
— Sylvia Townsend Warner. Kingdoms of Elfin [1977]. Foreword by Greer Gilman with an Introduction by Ingrid Hotz-Davies. Handheld Press, [2018].
/ re-read, with delight