Diction Poetic Hate I Do
The current volume I’m reading in the Harvard Classics series is English Poetry 1. I believe they’ve tried as much as possible to go in
The current volume I’m reading in the Harvard Classics series is English Poetry 1. I believe they’ve tried as much as possible to go in
I hope I’m a decent person. I try to be. I do my best to treat people with respect and I try…. even if I
I just finished reading through the book of Daniel and I was reminded that it may be, at least in my opinion, one of the
Reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, I realized I could understand quite a bit. It helps that I’ve been in more contact with older forms of English
So I am running across this construction in verbs while reading the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. It is to start certain verb forms with a
Reading through volume 39 of the Harvard Series- Famous Prefaces, I’m in Victor Hugo’s preface to Cromwell, where he defines the Romanticist movement. He starts
William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, writes “a principle which must be well known to those who have made any of the Arts
I saw this quote in one of the pieces I’m reading: One sees only what one knows. Just ruminating on that a bit, and considering
In the book of prefaces I’m reading right now, this one by Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his dictionary, made me think of my
On my drives to and from work, I listen to podcasts. Most of the time, I try to use the time to expand my knowledge
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.