Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?
Whales and coffee
Yet another gray day. Satchel curled up beside me and the laptop and the Grande Peppermint Mocha from an unnamed prominent coffee chain named after a character in Moby Dick. Literature has the strangest effect on people and society. I think that Herman Melville would be both pleased and appalled at the coffee chain’s success. … Continue reading Whales and coffee
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Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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