- Here is the audio of William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
...the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.
- In Pennsylvania on January 1, 1644, the weather was "cloudy and rainy weather, with occasional sunshine and somewhat warm," according to The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 15
- Five Deadliest Hurricanes in the United States:
2.Lake Okeechobee, Fla.1928
3.Katrina (La./Miss.)20053
4.Florida Keys/S. Tex. 1919
5.New England 1938
According to: Deadliest Hurricanes in the United States (U.S. Mainland) — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778120.html#ixzz1ZwP12W00
- Here are the original blueprints for Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.
- My thoughts on Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport photo:
- Ernest Hemingway was kind of a babe (this is factual, right?)
- Passports at this time had a weird kind of swirly background print with "United States Passport" printed inside
- He was number 359666
- The whole document is very off-center
- There is a raised seal in the left side of the passport
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