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Friends | Guide to Daily Reading 12/2/22

By Marica / December 2, 2022 December 4, 2022 / Samuel Daniel, George Darley, Delia, Shakespeare, Charles & Mary Lamb, James Russell Lowell

Nothing happened though The Booklover’s Almanac tells me that on this date in 1603 As You Like It was performed by Shakespeare’s company at Wilson House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, with Shakespeare appearing in one of the roles. (Which reminds me…) Daily Readings: The brief bio of George Darley seems rather incomplete: Associating …

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Knowledge is Power, France is Bacon, and…

By Marica / November 30, 2022 November 30, 2022 / Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, The Imaginative Conservative, Bacon is Shakespeare / 2 Comments

Not long ago I was in the company of a small group, meeting for the first time to discuss “fringe science.” They hadn’t defined “fringe” in relation to science yet, so to get the ball rolling they went around the room, each person (there were five or six) giving his or her favorite example of …

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