When I was young I used to love Michael Rosen. Don’t put mustard in the custard and lots of silly ones like that. I also remember that there was a darker poem in one of the poem compilation books set on the underground about a boy who fell between the tracks and couldn’t get back up. The train wa...

In "In the Midst of Alarms" (1894) by Robert Barr, a blacksmith, Macdonald, did an embarrassing trick to break the conceit of his New Yorker client in front of the crowd in his smithy, but he failed Macdonald saw there was no triumph over him among his crowd, for they all evidently felt as much ...

I am struggling to find the poem 'Flatline', by Margaret Atwood which is a staple for my presentation on old-age depressions. I ran out of my last credit in the New Yorker also, so I am not allowed to view the entire poem unless I pay cash. If anyone has never entered the site New Yorker, (which ...

I have recently become increasingly interested in the philosophy from the Enlightenment period and how it relates to today's understanding of freedom, human rights and responsibility in a western society. Can anyone recommend some books that give a good overview of some of the prominent thinkers ...

In the opening chapter of Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm", the following passage is found (emphasis mine): The discussion waxed so warm that the purr of the milk streams became jerky, till a voice from another cow's belly cried with authority, "Now then, what the Turk do it matter to us about ...