Get a reference book of songs or rags (some are listed on my Books on Ragtime page). These contain titles, composers, recordings, and occasionally the current publishers of pieces and folios. Visit your parents or grandparents, or friends thereof, more often. Offer to inventory or clean their...
If your characters are demigods, they should sound like demigods – what’s more, they should dress like them. I set an example in this respect, which you totally perverted. EURIPIDES How? AESCHYLUS By dressing your kings in rags so that they appear as objects of pity. EURIPIDES What ...
Later, I was told by a Tibetan expert that I had not quite got the force of the word metoh. It did not mean abominable quite so much as 'filthy' and 'disgusting,' somebody dressed in rags. There is no etymological mysteriousness to abominable snowman: abominable occurs in Middle English...
Both statements are greatly oversimplified—America is certainly not the Roman Empire; and the decline of Rome occurred for many complex reasons—however, the tantalizing prospect of a circumstantial connection between the two is too intriguing to ignore. By the time the Huns and Vandals were ...
I will be analyzing is from the beginning of his career, toward the end of his Blue Period, so the eroticism is absent from this work of art. The painting is titled "The Old Guitarist" and depicts a homeless man playing the guitar. He is dressed in rags and looks like he is ...
"Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners, out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar, the king of Assyria, led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land. But they took this counsel among themsel...
was a quote recently heard late night in a bar where Caleb and Reeb were performing. A little harsh perhaps, but the sentiment exudes admiration for the pure and honest sound that these two produce. They are a vocally-driven duo whose music stands out as subtle, powerful, and compelling....
Madeline also puts a brick that has "You are so small" inscribed on it in front of Griswold's face, which ultimately becomes instrumental to The Fall of the House of Usher's overarching themes. The symbolism behind the mysterious quote sums up pretty much everything the Ushers do to rise...
They were things of rags and tatters–their only luggage a bottle of whiskey. The mates were thankful if they could muster enough real sailors to work the ship to sea and then began the stern process of whipping the wastrels and incompetents into shape for the perils and emergencies of ...
One report about the Caputo source barrel said that once it was in DDL’s warehouse being used as a table for cleaning rags, another say it was hidden in plain sight, disguised as a toilet Luca carved for himself and sat on whenever he went to Genoa, after it had made its way there...