Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Web Log for 1.29.24 and 1.30.24

Not much link hunting...Oh, why not admit it. Booktober Blitz put me on too many e-mail lists. Too much of my e-mail is mere book advertisements without links to share here.

History 

Have you ever wondered why little red wagons used to be branded "Radio Flyer"? 


Now a longer and sadder bit of history:


(Reminded me of a song...)


Poem 

Have you ever wondered how Scrooge got that way? Considering Charles Dickens' biography, is it possible that Scrooge was the "shadow self" Dickens imagined as having reacted to a life experience in the opposite way from Dickens' own reaction?



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