Happy Hobbit Birthday

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

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Can't You Guys Read?

Can't You Guys Read?:  Cartoons on Academia by Sidney Harris

A collection of cartoons on academic matters, from the youngest students to the oldest, with forays into life as a professor and research.

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Unnatural Death

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

The third Lord Peter Wimsey novel.  With rather few connections to the others -- you could not tell its place among the early ones on internal evidence alone -- though my edition opens with a biographical note purportedly by his uncle to recount his backstory, and it alludes to later novels.

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philosophizing about the fair folk

Read a fair number of books about the -- ehem -- Fair Folk nowadays.
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