This week, Expedictionary’s Quote of the Fortnight returns, this time with a quote from Robert Graves’ classic I, Claudius. The book, a fictionalized autobiography of Emperor Claudius’ life and the story of […]
This week’s Quote of the Fortnight features a poem from Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho, one of the greatest poets of all time. Not much survives of Sappho’s work, […]
The ‘Quote of the Fortnight’ returns, with this passage from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Emperor of Rome from 161 A.D. to 180 A.D., Aurelius wrote this self-help book on the battlefield along […]
As part of my seemingly never-ending quest to read every book Michael Crichton has ever written (just 3 to go!), I reserved Crichton’s Electronic Life: How to Think about Computers from […]
This week’s Quote of the Fortnight concerns a line from John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” a foundational text that laid the foundation for American republican democracy. A proponent of […]
This week’s quote comes from John Le Carre’s classic cold war novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel concerns the experience of master spy George Smiley attempting to discover a Soviet mole […]
This week’s quote of the fortnight comes from Aldous Huxley’s Island, a novel that acts as a counterpoint to the dystopia of Huxley’s Brave New World, describing the utopian island of Pala. Enjoy! […]
To celebrate the official arrival of spring, here’s an excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles,” a passage called “Rocket Summer.” In the passage, the cold of winter is transformed, […]
This week’s quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Experience.” This excerpt discusses the phenomenon of novelty and the disappointment a child has when he reads something for the second time […]
This week’s Quote of the Fortnight is the opening line from Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws, which was made into the blockbuster film that launched Stephen Spielberg’s career as a director. The […]
