Sitting in the airport waiting to board a plane to Philadelphia, I can’t help but think about some advice I gave to my students this morning. Mostly, it’s the lack of a Wi-Fi connection and the realization that computers are not that interesting without a network connection that precipitated these thoughts. It concerns an activity [...]
Archive | January, 2006
The Heroic Couplet
The heroic, sometimes known as the closed, couplet dates back to Chaucer, who uses it in the Canterbury Tales (of course it is not the same couplet; its secondary characteristics differ, and it lacks the conciseness of Pope’s couplets). The heroic couplet achieved widespread usage, however, only after the Restoration, where one finds it both [...]
Keeping Up Appearances
Duping people is not evil; duping people to the point that it threatens their well-being may just be. But duping people and getting found out in the end is the height of all evil, even in our culture.
