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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,636

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 25, 2024

This is the grave of James Montgomery Flagg. Born in 1877 in Pelham, New York, Flagg started drawing when he was a young kid and he really got into it. He wanted to draw for the rest of his life, which is more or less...

DFHno6 Considering that Milton's Paradise Lost is about half that long and, to my mind --- though Milton's language is from 200 years before Browning and isn't all that different from, say,...
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Eric K yeah, inevitably when I order Sushi to go I end up looking at the menu and thinking, yeah I need some pot stickers too, then get home and realize the potstickers are like enough for 4 people 😊
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David Hunt I've got no argument about Tolkien's predilections about industrialization. However, I was struck by your quoted passage below that hits me everything I've read it recent decades....
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