Commonplace Book
Sep 01, 2022
3 minutes
Collected by ANNE MATTHEWS
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” Essays: Second Series, 1844
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
—John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
To eat an oyster raw is to eat it alive. What does it hear as you prepare to slip its body down your throat? If you don’t bite into it, does it start to hear
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