{"id":211,"date":"2015-05-29T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:43:34","slug":"nightstand-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/nightstand-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand IV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John S. Farmer. A dictionary of slang: An alphabetical history of colloquial, unorthodox, underground and vulgar English<\/em>. (1980 reprint of Slang and its analogues<\/em>, 1890). Mostly eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slang, with an emphasis on the London underworld.\u00a0In two fat volumes! As great for browsing as it is for reference (“tip us your flipper” = give me your hand: vital information for all time travelers). My only complaint is that the organization is eccentric. Words\u00a0are gathered together by subject, under a headword that the editor judged to be, I suppose, the most common term\u00a0\u2014 so that, for example, all terms for the female pudenda are listed under Monosyllable (!). Copious cross-references could have cured this defect, but they are sparse.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Balen. The secret history of the South Sea bubble: The world’s first great financial scandal<\/em>. I don’t know how\u00a0secret<\/em> any of this actually is, but it’s fascinating to see all the threads gathered together and laid out plainly.<\/p>\n

Lapham’s quarterly<\/em>, volume 5, number 3: Magic shows. At a recent Friends of the Library book sale, I saw a box under the table with a nearly complete run of this fine publication, many of them still in shrink-wrap. Naturally, I snapped them up; at $5 a bag (it was the last day), how can you go wrong?<\/p>\n

James Tiptree, Jr. Her smoke rose up forever<\/em>. I recently read\u00a0Julie Phillips’s fine biography, James Tiptree, Jr.: The double life of Alice B. Sheldon.<\/em>\u00a0Rereading the stories now, there’s an eerie sensation of\u00a0seeing through<\/em> the surface of the fiction and catching elusive glimpses of something else lurking there, something\u00a0darker, sadder, more desperate, more painful\u00a0than\u00a0any possible endurance.<\/p>\n

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John S. Farmer. A dictionary of slang: An alphabetical history of colloquial, unorthodox, underground and vulgar English. (1980 reprint of Slang and its analogues, 1890). Mostly eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slang, with an emphasis on the London underworld.\u00a0In two fat volumes! As great for browsing as it is for reference (“tip us your flipper” = … Continue reading “Nightstand IV”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scribbledehobble","category-weaving-and-writhing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}