Writing – Page 25 – Little Patuxent Review

Fairy Tales, Full Circle

The association of children and fairy stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the playroom, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused. –JRR Tolkien, […]

Words in Time

One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and be the first person ever to make that discovery. –The Official Google Blog, 12/16/2010 11:08:00 AM Only days after Google’s Books Ngram Viewer went live, I was hooked. […]