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Sherlock Holmes was based on a real man, Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell, whom Arthur Conan Doyle had served as a clerk in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Bell was famous for making deductions about his patients. He greeted one by saying, "Ah, I perceive that you are a soldier, a noncommissioned officer, and that you have served in Bermuda."
When the man acknowledged this, Bell addressed his students. "How did I know that, gentlemen? The matter is simplicity itself. He came into the room without taking his hat off, as he would go into an orderly's room. He was a soldier. A slight authoritative air, combined with his age, shows that he was a noncommissioned officer. A slight rash on the forehead tells me that he was in Bermuda, and subject to a certain rash known only there."
On another occasion Bell challenged his students to identify a bitter drug by taste alone. They watched him dip a finger into the tumbler and taste it, and reluctantly followed suit. "Gentlemen," he said with a laugh, "I am deeply grieved to find that not one of you has developed this power of perception which I so often speak about; for if you had watched me closely, you would have found that while I placed my forefinger in the medicine, it was the middle finger which found its way into my mouth."
Working Afield
Dutch author Leo Lionni devoted most of his career to children's books, but in 1977 he undertook a weird experiment. Parallel Botany is a catalog of made-up plants, whose made-up features are described by made-up botanists and illustrated by Lionni's pencil drawings. Sigurya barbulata, at left, is distinguished by its crowning "cephalocarpus"; a specimen discovered in a Mexican pyramid was found to have been metallized into an organic mace, but how this had come about is the subject of "furious debates."
"The difficulties of applying traditional methods of research to the study of parallel botany stem chiefly from the matterlessness of the plants," Lionni wrote. "Deprived as they are of any real organs or tissues, their character would be completely indefinable if it were not for the fact that parallel botany is nonetheless botany, and as such it reflects, even if somewhat distantly, many of the most evident features of normal plants."
Why do all this? Lionni closes with a quote by the made-up Swedish philosopher Erud Kronengaard: "There are two kinds of men, those who are capable of wonder and those who are not. I hope to God that it is the first who will forge our destiny."
In a Word
n. a list of written stupidities
Unfortunate lines in poetry, collected in D.B. Wyndham Lewis' The Stuffed Owl, 1930:
- He suddenly dropt dead of heart-disease. (Tennyson, "Sea-Dreams")
- Her smile was silent as the smile on corpses three hours old. (Earl of Lytton, "Love and Sleep")
- Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast? (Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra")
- Then I fling the fisherman's flaccid corpse / At the feet of the fisherman's wife. (Alfred Austin, "The Wind Speaks")
- With a goad he punched each furious dame. (Chapman, translation of the Iliad)
- Forgive my transports on a theme like this, / I cannot bear a French metropolis. (Johnson, "London")
- So 'tis with Christians, Nature being weak, / While in this world, are liable to leak. (William Balmford, The Seaman's Spiritual Companion)
- Now Vengeance has a brood of eggs, / But Patience must be hen. (George Meredith, "Archduchess Anne")
- O Sire of Song! Sonata-King! Sublime and loving Master, / The sweetest soul that ever struck an octave in disaster! (Eric Mackay, "Beethoven at the Piano")
- The vales were saddened by a common gloom, / When good Jemima perished in her bloom. (Wordsworth, "Epitaph on Mrs. Quillinan")
- Such was the sob and the mutual throb / Of the knight embracing Jane. (Thomas Campbell, "The Ritter Bann")
- Poor South! Her books get fewer and fewer, / She was never much given to literature. (J. Gordon Coogler)
- Reach me a Handcerchiff, Another yet, / And yet another, for the last is wett. (Anonymous, A Funeral Elegie Upon the Death of George Sonds, Esq., 1658)
- Tell me what viands, land or streams produce, / The large, black, female, moulting crab excel? (Grainger, The Sugar-Cane)
In The Razor's Edge, Larry Darrell says, "The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead." Isabel asks, "What do you mean exactly?" He says, "Just that."
Grave Matters
In 1554 Sir James Hales drowned himself. The coroner returned a verdict of felo de se, meaning that Sir James was guilty of the felony of self-murder. His estate was forfeited to the crown, which planned to award it to one Cyriac Petit. Sir James' widow, Margaret, contested this. So the case turned on the question whether the grounds for forfeiture had occurred during Sir James' lifetime: Had his suicide occurred during his life, or after his death?
Margaret Hales' counsel argued that one can't be guilty of suicide while one is still living, practically by definition, so self-murder shouldn't be classed as a felony: "He cannot be felo de se till the death is fully consummate, and the death precedes the felony and the forfeiture."
But Petit's counsel argued that part of the act of suicide lies in planning to do it, which certainly occurs during life: "The act consists of three parts: the first is the imagination, which is a reflection or meditation of the mind, whether or not it is convenient for him to destroy himself, and what way it can be done; the second is the resolution, which is a determination of the mind to destroy himself; the third is the perfection, which is the execution of what the mind had resolved to do. And of all the parts, the doing of the act is the greatest in the judgment of our law, and it is in effect the whole."
The court ruled for Petit, finding that Sir James had killed himself during his lifetime: "The forfeiture shall have relation to the time the original offence began which caused the death, and that was the throwing himself into the water, which was done in his lifetime and this act was felony. That which caused the death may be said to be feloniously done. The felony is attributed to the act, which act is always done by a living man; for, Brown said, Sir James Hales was dead, and how came he by his death? It may be answered by drowning; and who drowned him? Sir James Hales; and when did he this? It can be answered, in his lifetime. So that Sir James Hales being alive caused Sir James Hales to be dead, and the act of the living man caused the death of the dead man."
The case is remembered, and not charitably, in the churchyard scene in Hamlet:
First Clown: Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man; good; if the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes,–mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
Second Clown: But is this law?
First Clown: Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law.
Penny Wisdom
More proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack:
- Those who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
- Great modesty often hides great merit.
- The Muses love the Morning.
- Do me the favour to deny me at once.
- There's none deceived but he that trusts.
- If evils come not, then our fears are vain; and if they do, fear but augments the pain.
- Full of courtesie, full of craft.
- The tongue is ever turning the aching tooth.
- Nothing dries sooner than a Tear.
- In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Want of it.
- An old young man will be a young old man.
- The prodigal generally does more injustice than the covetous.
- Singularity in the right, hath ruined many: happy those who are convinced of the general Opinion.
- Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?
"The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than shewing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again. Most men had rather please than admire you and seek less to be instructed and diverted, than approved and applauded; and it is certainly the most delicate sort of pleasure, to please another. But that sort of wit, which employs itself insolently in criticizing and censuring the words and sentiments of others in conversation, is absolute folly; for it answers none of the needs of conversation. He who uses it neither improves others, is improved himself, or pleases any one."
Science, Fiction
Inspired by Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, marine engineer Simon Lake devoted himself to making a working practical submarine. In 1898, when his company built the first sub to operate successfully in the open sea, Verne sent a congratulatory telegram:
Bonus fact: The "20,000 leagues" in Verne's title refers to the distance of the Nautilus' voyage, not its depth. The sea is only about 2 miles deep; 20,000 leagues is nearly 70,000 miles.
The last canto of Dante's Purgatorio contains this perplexing sentence:
And if perchance
My saying, dark as Themis or as Sphinx,
Fail to persuade thee, (since like them it foils
The intellect with blindness) yet ere long
Events shall be the Naiads, that will solve
This knotty riddle, and no damage light
On flock or field.
When did water nymphs solve the riddle of the Sphinx? It turns out that Dante was relying on a flawed medieval edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses that rendered Laïades (meaning Oedipus, the son of Laius) as Naïades, or naiads. He believed that water nymphs had ridden their sea monsters across the desert to solve the Sphinx's riddle.
The version of the story that we know, in which Oedipus solves the riddle, comes from Sophocles' Oedipus, which, being written in Greek, was unavailable to Dante. And he cast his own version in such exquisite language that it's now immortal — one classic work misquoting another.
(Thanks, Jim.)
In a Word
n. a hoarder of books
In the rare book collection of the archives at Caltech is a copy of Adrien-Marie Legendre's 1808 text on number theory. It comes from the collection of Eric Temple Bell, who taught mathematics at Caltech from 1926 to 1953. Inside the book is an inscription in Bell's handwriting:
This book survived the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 18 April, 1906. It was buried with about 600 others, in a vacant lot, before the fire reached the spot. The house next door to the lot fell upon the cache; the tar from the roof baked the 4 feet of dirt, covering the books, to brick, and incinerated all but 4 books, of which this is one. Signed: E. T. Bell. Book buried just below Grace Church, at California and Stockton Streets. House number 729 California Street.
During the Great Fire of London in 1666, Samuel Pepys came upon Sir William Batten burying his wine in a pit in his garden. Pepys "took the opportunity of laying all the papers of my office that I could not otherwise dispose of" and later buried "my Parmazan cheese, as well as my wine and some other things." I don't know whether he ever recovered them.
Special Delivery
Mark Twain's 3-year-old daughter Susie found this letter waiting for her on Christmas morning 1875:
Palace of St. Nicholas,
In the Moon,
Christmas Morning.
My Dear Susie Clemens:
I have received & read all the letters which you & your little sister have written me by the hand of your mother & your nurses; & I have also read those which you little people have written me with your own hands — for although you did not use any characters that are in grown people's alphabets, you used the character which all children, in all lands on earth & in the twinkling stars use; & as all my subjects in the moon are children & use no character but that, you will easily understand that I can read your & your baby sister's jagged & fantastic marks without any trouble at all. But I had trouble with those letters which you dictated through your mother & the nurses, for I am a foreigner & cannot read English writing well. You will find that I made no mistakes about the things which you & the baby ordered in your own letters — I went down your chimney at midnight & when you were asleep, & delivered them all, myself — & kissed both of you, too, because you are good children, well trained, nice-mannered, & about the most obedient little people I ever saw. But in the letters which you dictated, there were some words which I could not make out, for certain, & one or two small orders which I couldn't fill because we ran out of stock. Our last lot of kitchen furniture for dolls had just gone to a very poor little child in the North Star, away up in the cold country above the Big Dipper. Your mama can show you that star, & you will say, 'Little Snow Flake (for that is the child's name,) I'm glad you got that furniture, for you need it more than I.' That is, you must write that, with your own hand, & Snow Flake will write you an answer. If you only spoke it, she wouldn't hear you. Make your letter light & thin, for the distance is great & the postage very heavy.
There was a word or two in your mama's letter which I couldn't be certain of. I took it to be 'trunk full of doll's clothes?' Is that it? I will call at your kitchen door about nine o'clock this morning to inquire. But I must not see anybody, & I must not speak to anybody but you. When the kitchen door-bell rings, George must be blindfolded & sent to open the door, & then he must go back to the dining room or the china closet & take the cook with him. You must tell George he must walk on tip-toe and not speak — otherwise he will die some day. Then you must go up to the nursery & stand on a chair or the nurse's bed, & put your ear to the speaking tube that leads down to the kitchen, & when I whistle through it, you must speak in the tube & say, 'Welcome, Santa Claus!' Then I will ask whether it was a trunk you ordered or not? If you say it was, I shall ask you what color you want the trunk to be. Your mama will help you to name a nice color, & then you must tell me every single thing, in detail, which you want the trunk to contain. Then when I say 'Good bye & a Merry Christmas to my little Susie Clemens!' You must say, 'Good bye, good old Santa Claus, & thank you very much — & please tell that little Snow Flake I will look at her star to-night & she must look down here — I will be right in the west bay-window; & every fine night I will look at her star & say, I know somebody up there, & like her, too.' Then you must go down in the library, & make George close all the doors that open into the main hall, & everybody must keep still for a little while. I will go to the moon & get those things, & in a few minutes I will come down the chimney which belongs to the fire-place that is in the hall — if it is a trunk you want, because I couldn't get such a thing as a trunk down the nursery-chimney, you know.
People may talk, if they want to, till they hear my footsteps in the hall — then you tell them to keep quiet a little while till I go back up the chimney. Maybe you will not hear my foot steps at all — so you may go now & then & peep through the dining room doors, & by & by you will see that thing which you want, right under the piano in the drawing room — for I shall put it there. If I should leave any snow in the hall, you must tell George to sweep it into the fireplace, for I haven't time to do such things. George must not use a broom, but a rag — else he will die some day. You must watch George, & not let him run into danger. If my boot should leave a stain on the marble, George must not holy-stone it away. Leave it there always in memory of my visit; & whenever you look at it or show it to anybody you must let it remind you to be a good little girl. Whenever you are naughty, & somebody points to that mark which your good old Santa Claus's boot made on the marble, what will you say, little Sweetheart?
Good-bye, for a few minutes, till I come down to the world & ring the kitchen door-bell.
Your loving
Santa Claus,
Whom people sometimes call 'The Man in the Moon.'
In May 1875, Frederick Law Olmsted received a letter from his 4-year-old son Henry, asking him to send the family dog to Massachusetts, where he and his mother were visiting family friends. Olmsted replied:
Dear Henry:
The cats keep coming into the yard, six of them every day, and Quiz drives them out. If I should send Quiz to you to drive the cows away from your rhubarb he would not be here to drive the cats out of the yard. If six cats should keeping coming into the yard every day and not go out, in a week there would be 42 of them and in a month 180 and before you came back next November 1260. Then if there should be 1260 cats in the yard before next November half of them at least would have kittens and if half of them should have 6 kittens apiece, there would be more than 5000 cats and kittens in the yard. There would not be any place for Rosanna to spread the clothes unless she drove them all off the grass plot, and if she did they would have to crowd at the end of the yard nearest the house, and if they did that they would make a great pile as high as the top of my windows. A pile of 5000 cats and kittens, some of them black ones, in front of my window would make my office so dark I should not be able to write in it. Besides that those underneath, particularly the kittens, would be hurt by those standing on top of them and I expect they would make such a great squalling all the time that I should not be able to sleep, and if I was not able to sleep, I should not be able to work, and if I did not work I should not have any money, and if I had not any money, I could not send any to Plymouth to pay your fare back on the Fall River boat, and I could not pay my fare to go to Plymouth and so you and I would not ever see each other any more. No, Sir. I can't spare Quiz and you will have to watch for the cows and drive them off yourself or you will raise no rhubarb.
Your affectionate father.
Franklin's Mint
Lesser-known maxims from Poor Richard's Almanack:
- Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander, hath as lasting fame as his master.
- Who has deceiv'd thee so oft as thy self?
- We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
- A temper to bear much, will have much to bear.
- Content and riches seldom meet together; riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
- Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
- Vanity backbites more than malice.
- In success be moderate.
- A new truth is a truth, and an old error is an error, tho' Clodpate won't allow either.
- What maintains one Vice would bring up two children.
- The Golden Age never was the present Age.
- Quarrels never could last long, if on one side lay the wrong.
- If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you t'other World?
"Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. Nor is a duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded because it is beneficial."
In 1880, Sidney Lanier made an important announcement to his 11-year-old son Charley:
West Chester, Pa.
August 15, 1880
My dear Charley:
A young man came to our house yesterday morning who claims that he is a brother of yours and Sidney's and Harry's and that he is entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining unto that honorable connection. … He is a most exemplary young man. He never stays out late at night; neither chews, smokes, nor uses snuff; abstains from all intoxicating liquors, and does not touch even tea or coffee; however much preserves and fruit-cake there may be on the supper-table, he never asks for any; he does no kind of work on the Sabbath; he honors his father and mother, particularly his mother; he plays no games of hazard, not even marbles for winnance; and I am positively certain that in the whole course of his life he has never uttered a single angry or ungentlemanly word. I am bound to admit that he has his shortcomings: he isn't as particular about his clothes as I would like to see him; he has a way of trying to get both fists in his mouth which certainly does look odd in company; and he wants his breakfast in the morning at four o'clock — an hour at which it is very inconvenient, with our household arrangements, to furnish it to him. …
Earnestly hoping that this lovely little (for I omitted to mention that he is small of stature) brother Rob may find a good warm place in your three hearts without being obliged to resort to extreme measures, and with a hundred embraces for you, me dear big Charley,
I am
Your &c &c &c.
A letter from William James to his 8-year-old daughter Peggy, June 19, 1895:
Sweet Peg.
I am very happy here, and fear that you may already have gone up to Chocorua with your Mamma. Yesterday a beautiful humming bird came into the library and spent two hours without resting, trying to find his way out by the skylight in the ceiling. You never saw such untiring strength. Filled with pity for his fatigue, I went into the garden and culled a beautiful rose. The moment I held it up in my hand under the skylight, the angelic bird flew down into it and rested there as in a nest — the beautifullest sight you ever saw.
Your loving
In November 1921 Carl Sandburg's 10-year-old daughter Margaret fell asleep in class and was diagnosed with nocturnal epilepsy. Her mother rushed her to Battle Creek Sanitarium, where her condition would be treated with fasting. Sandburg wrote to her:
Dear Margaret,
This is only a little letter from your daddy to say he thinks about you hours and hours and he knows that there was never a princess or a fairy worth so much love. We are starting on a long journey and hard fight — you and mother and daddy — and we are going to go on slowly, quietly, hand in hand, the three of us, never giving up. And so we are going to win. Slowly, quietly, never giving up, we are going to win.
They did. Margaret's weight plummeted, but she recovered and went on to edit many of her father's works. In 1953 Sandburg wrote to a friend, "Margaret has become widely read, a scholar who often surprises me with her erudition, knows the Bible and Shakespeare better than I do."
A Cynic's Glossary
Entries in Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (1911):
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.
HERS, pron. His.
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
OTHERWISE, adv. No better.
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
He defined nonsense as "the objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary."
John Brunner's 1965 science fiction novel The Squares of the City concerns a South American metropolis in which two opposing political leaders direct the actions of their followers using "subliminal perception."
In an afterword, Brunner revealed that he had organized the entire plot to follow a historic chess game, Steinitz-Tchigorin Havana 1892. Each of the 32 pieces and pawns corresponds to a character in the book, and every capture in the Steinitz-Tchigorin game corresponds to an event in the plot. For example, Felipe Mendoza, representing the black king's bishop, is killed in a duel with Luis Arrio, who represents the white queen's knight. In the game, Steinitz captured Tchigorin's king's bishop with his queen's knight on move 22.
"The individuals who correspond to the 'pieces' have powers roughly commensurate with those of the pawns and officers they represent," Brunner explained. "The moves are all there, in their correct order and — so far as possible — in precise correspondence with their effect on the original game. That is to say, support of one piece by another on its own side, threatening of one or more pieces by a piece on the other side, indirect threats and the actual taking of pieces, are all as closely represented as possible in the development of the action."
The book was nominated for the Hugo Award for best novel in 1966.
One day in 1880 John Muir set out to explore a glacier in southeastern Alaska, accompanied by Stickeen, the dog belonging to his traveling companion. The day went well, but on their way back to camp they found their way blocked by an immense 50-foot crevasse crossed diagonally by a narrow fin of ice. After long deliberation Muir cut his way down to the fin, straddled it and worked his way perilously across, but Stickeen, who had shown dauntless courage throughout the day, could not be convinced to follow. He sought desperately for some other route, gazing fearfully into the gulf and "moaning and wailing as if in the bitterness of death." Muir called to him, pretended to march off, and finally ordered him sternly to cross the bridge. Miserably the dog inched down to the farther end and, "lifting his feet with the regularity and slowness of the vibrations of a seconds pendulum," crept across the abyss and scrambled up to Muir's side.
And now came a scene! 'Well done, well done, little boy! Brave boy!' I cried, trying to catch and caress him; but he would not be caught. Never before or since have I seen anything like so passionate a revulsion from the depths of despair to exultant, triumphant, uncontrollable joy. He flashed and darted hither and thither as if fairly demented, screaming and shouting, swirling round and round in giddy loops and circles like a leaf in a whirlwind, lying down, and rolling over and over, sidewise and heels over head, and pouring forth a tumultuous flood of hysterical cries and sobs and gasping mutterings. When I ran up to him to shake him, fearing he might die of joy, he flashed off two or three hundred yards, his feet in a mist of motion; then, turning suddenly, came back in a wild rush and launched himself at my face, almost knocking me down, all the while screeching and screaming and shouting as if saying, 'Saved! saved! saved!' Then away again, dropping suddenly at times with his feet in the air, trembling and fairly sobbing. Such passionate emotion was enough to kill him. Moses' stately song of triumph after escaping the Egyptians and the Red Sea was nothing to it. Who could have guessed the capacity of the dull, enduring little fellow for all that most stirs this mortal frame? Nobody could have helped crying with him!
Thereafter, Muir wrote, "Stickeen was a changed dog. During the rest of the trip, instead of holding aloof, he always lay by my side, tried to keep me constantly in sight, and would hardly accept a morsel of food, however tempting, from any hand but mine. At night, when all was quiet about the camp-fire, he would come to me and rest his head on my knee with a look of devotion as if I were his god. And often as he caught my eye he seemed to be trying to say, 'Wasn't that an awful time we had together on the glacier?'"
Driven from bed by pain in his toe one October night, Ben Franklin imagined a parley with his tormentor:
FRANKLIN. Eh! Oh! eh! What have I done to merit these cruel sufferings?
GOUT. Many things; you have ate and drank too freely, and too much indulged those legs of yours in their indolence.
FRANKLIN. Who is it that accuses me?
GOUT. It is I, even I, the Gout.
FRANKLIN. What! my enemy in person?
GOUT. No, not your enemy.
FRANKLIN. I repeat it, my enemy; for you would not only torment my body to death, but ruin my good name; you reproach me as a glutton and a tippler; now all the world, that knows me, will allow that I am neither the one nor the other.
GOUT. The world may think as it pleases; it is always very complaisant to itself, and sometimes to its friends; but I very well know that the quantity of meat and drink proper for a man, who takes a reasonable degree of exercise, would be too much for another, who never takes any.
FRANKLIN. I take — eh! oh! — as much exercise — eh! — as I can, Madam Gout. You know my sedentary state, and on that account, it would seem, Madam Gout, as if you might spare me a little, seeing it is not altogether my own fault.
GOUT. Not a jot; your rhetoric and your politeness are thrown away; your apology avails nothing. If your situation in life is a sedentary one, your amusements, your recreation, at least, should be active. …
FRANKLIN. Oh! oh! — for Heaven's sake leave me! and I promise faithfully never more to play at chess, but to take exercise daily, and live temperately.
GOUT. I know you too well. You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of the last year's clouds. Let us then finish the account, and I will go. But I leave you with an assurance of visiting you again at a proper time and place; for my object is your good, and you are sensible now that I am your real friend.
As the dialogue shows, Franklin had understood the risks he was incurring — at 28 he had written in Poor Richard's Almanack:
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and slouth;
Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
But he accepted the consequences. Three years before his death he wrote, "People who live long, who will drink of the cup of life to the very bottom, must expect to meet with the usual dregs, and when I reflect on the number of terrible maladies human nature is subject to, I think myself favoured in having to my share only the stone and the gout."
A Farewell
Book One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise concludes with this italicized passage as Tom and Amory are taking leave of Princeton:
The last light fades and drifts across the land — the low, long land, the sunny land of spires; the ghosts of evening tune again their lyres and wander singing in a plaintive band down the long corridors of trees; pale fires echo the night from tower top to tower: Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
No more to wait the twilight of the moon in this sequestered vale of star and spire, for one eternal morning of desire passes to time and earthy afternoon. Here, Heraclitus, did you find in fire and shifting things the prophecy you hurled down the dead years; this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world.
In fact this is a sonnet. Fitzgerald had written it originally in rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and decided only afterward to run it into prose. There's a second such poem ("The February streets, wind-washed by night") hidden in the section "Looking Backward." See Prose Poetry.
Speaking of Princeton, I found this photo while researching art for this post — "Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893″:
Asked and Answered
Novelist Simon Raven was known as a bit of a bounder.
When his wife wired him WIFE AND BABY STARVING SEND MONEY SOONEST, he cabled back SORRY NO MONEY SUGGEST EAT BABY.
James Joyce took extraordinary pains in composing Ulysses. By his estimate the book cost him 20,000 hours of labor over eight years, and he told a friend that the resulting research "filled a small valise." On Nov. 2, 1921, just weeks before the novel went to press, he wrote to his aunt, Josephine Murray:
Is it possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build. I require this information in detail in order to determine the wording of a paragraph.
Sure enough, this passage appears in "Ithaca," the book's 17th episode, when Leopold Bloom realizes he has forgotten his key:
A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement, and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.
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Throughout his career Shiki wrote essays, fiction, and poetry about the game, and he made translations of baseball terms that are still in use today. Eventually he taught the game to Kawahigashi Hekigotō and Takahama Kyoshi, who themselves became famous haiku poets under his tutelage, and today a baseball field near Bunka Kaikan in Ueno bears his name. He wrote:
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began baseball
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During our life at Tavistock House [1851-60], I had a long and serious illness, with an almost equally long convalescence. During the latter, my father suggested that I should be carried every day into his study to remain with him, and, although I was fearful of disturbing him, he assured me that he desired to have me with him. On one of these mornings, I was lying on the sofa endeavouring to keep perfectly quiet, while my father wrote busily and rapidly at his desk, when he suddenly jumped from his chair and rushed to a mirror which hung near, and in which I could see the reflection of some extraordinary facial contortions which he was making. He returned rapidly to his desk, wrote furiously for a few moments, and then went again to the mirror. The facial pantomime was resumed, and then turning toward, but evidently not seeing, me, he began talking rapidly in a low voice. Ceasing this soon, however, he returned once more to his desk, where he remained silently writing until luncheon time. It was a most curious experience for me, and one of which, I did not until later years, fully appreciate the purport. Then I knew that with his natural intensity he had thrown himself completely into the character that he was creating, and that for the time being he had not only lost sight of his surroundings, but had actually become in action, as in imagination, the creature of his pen.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN ŌĆö Perhaps itŌĆÖs fitting that Lincoln High senior Nick Zammarelli got to share his special moment ŌĆō that of getting selected by the hometown Boston Red Sox in the 28th round of Major League BaseballŌĆÖs First-Year Player draft, No. 833 overall ŌĆō with his teammates and coaches.
After all, both groups were generous with their support and encouragement through every twist and turn of his career.
Whenever scouts told Zammarelli that they wanted to see him take batting practice with a wood bat, you could always count on seeing a number of Lion players shagging fly balls. For many, witnessing their acclaimed teammate subjected to heavy and sometimes intense scrutiny was as close as they would get to experiencing life as a professional ballplayer.
With that as the back story, it shouldnŌĆÖt come as a shock that the team showered Zammarelli with applause upon learning the good news, moments before LincolnŌĆÖs Division I playoff game against North Kingstown at Lischio Field.
ŌĆ£I couldnŌĆÖt have done this without my coaches or teammates. They were behind me the whole way and calmed me down when I looked stressed at times,ŌĆØ was the gratitude Zammarelli expressed following the LionsŌĆÖ season-ending 1-0 loss to the Skippers on Saturday. ŌĆ£I owe it all to them. They kept me motivated and to keep my head up no matter what happened.ŌĆØ
The feeling was mutual from those who have been with Zammarelli every step of the way.
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm proud of him. HeŌĆÖs such a great kid and has been such a great captain this year,ŌĆØ remarked Lincoln head coach Andy Hallam. ŌĆ£HeŌĆÖs got a long, long career ahead of him.ŌĆØ
The news of the Red Sox selection of the local product came while Zammarelli was taking pre-game grounders at shortstop ŌĆō roughly 10 minutes before the scheduled 4:30 p.m. first pitch. Serving as the messenger, his enthusiastic sister, Tayla, rushed to the chain link fence just outside the LionsŌĆÖ dugout. Understanding that her brother had important business to attend to, Tayla passed along the word before returning to stand next to her parents, Nick Jr. and Lisa.
Listed on MLB.com as a 6-foot-1, 195-pound third baseman, Zammarelli earns the distinction as the first-ever player to be drafted out of Lincoln High and the only 2013 R.I. Interscholastic League participant to hear his name called during the 40-round draft extravaganza that was spread over three days.
In recent years the town has seen a number of players get drafted, the list including Stephen Holmes (2006, New York Mets), Dan Rhault (2009, Tampa Bay) and Chris Pickering (2012, San Francisco). All of those players, however, had college baseball experience under their belts. Another Lincoln native, Chris Costantino, was a senior at Bishop Hendricken when the Red Sox selected him in the 49th round of the 2009 draft.
The pro scouts followed Zammarelli ŌĆō a commit to Division I Elon University, located in North Carolina ŌĆō with great interest during the regular season. Batting mainly in the leadoff spot for the Lions, he earned high marks for his ability to hit for average and power while displaying plate discipline. He served as LincolnŌĆÖs starting shortstop, though he projects best as a corner infielder.
Ironically, the Red Sox were one of the last teams to express strong interest. Ray Fagnant, BostonŌĆÖs Northeast Regional Scouting Supervisor, appeared at Chet Nichols Field for LincolnŌĆÖs June 1 playoff game against Barrington. Zammarelli first met Fagnant during a clinic the New York Yankees held in Canton, Mass. last November.
ŌĆ£I didnŌĆÖt see (Fagnant) at a high school game until the end of the season,ŌĆØ said Zammarelli. ŌĆ£Basically what he said to me is that the Red Sox donŌĆÖt like to let the northeast guys go and that they were going to try to get me. I guess it ended up working out.ŌĆØView more articles in:


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Very good Erik. Looks like my Country's flag.
Greetings, Brazil, Garanhuns.
Thank you very much John, Elio! You can find these rapeseed fields in many places in Germany. I don't know for sure but I think it's actually a way of paying hommage to the winner Brazil after the lost world championship football in 2002 ;-)
Greetings, Erik
I agree, Erik but,...no English enough to explain the rest. You know that the brazilian football is the best one... sometimes...
Greetings, Elio.
Beautiful patchwork quilt! Well, maybe a "crazyquilt," with irregular patches, and bits of embroidery on them.
Greetings, Marilyn
Thanks Marilyn! I saturated the colors a bit to highen the contrast, but we had the same feeling when we stood there and watched this slightly amazing landscape.
Greetings, Erik
Erik, that's just the kind of increased saturation or other editing I like: doing what leads the viewer to have the same feeling, the same impression that the photographer had when looking upon the scene.
Greetings, Marilyn
Beautiful way! Beautiful landscape! Beautiful colors! Beautiful photography. My more cordial congratulation from Spain.
Thanks for the visiting and for the kind words, alcoleajim! It would be difficult to do the same thing with the colors of the Spanish flag, I think;-)
Cheers, Erik
Very interesting photo and title, Erik: indeed, a "Brazilian" landscape :) - Y*. Many greetings.
I assume you are from Brazil...;-) Thank you very much for your comment and for the star, Vinícius Antonio de Oliveira Dittrich!
Many greetings from Holland, Erik
Yes, Erik: I'm Brazilian. Many greetings.
I'm not exactly sure about the mapped position. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks for the kind words, Raúl!
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The Serengeti - Masai Mara ecosystem in Africa, which hosts the largest wildlife migration known to man, is under attack from a noxious weed from Central America, commonly known as feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus). If left unchecked it could threaten the continued migration of millions of animals across the plains every year, including 1.5 million wildebeest, 500,000 Thomson's gazelle and 200,000 zebra. …
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Parts of at least 1,069 Tigers have been seized in Tiger range countries over the past decade, according to new analysis of Tiger seizures carried out by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.The report Reduced to Skin and Bones shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 Tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year. read more …
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Every day biodiversity is being lost at up to 1,000 times the natural rate: almost 19 thousand species out of 52 thousand assessed so far are threatened with extinction and the results of the latest assessment of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ released today show that, on average, 50 species of mammal, bird and amphibian move closer to extinction each year due to the impacts of agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation and invasive alien species. …
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We might have to have a Twitter of the Year bracket if things keep going in this direction. First, Jack Wangler helps out Justice Hayes!
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— jack wangler (@J_Wangler16) June 17, 2015
And then there's Jourdan Lewis with his best Marshawn Lynch impression.
Whip game something serious @WyattShallman pic.twitter.com/TxASw23CuH
— Jourdan Lewis (@JourdanJD) June 18, 2015
I would support Lewis extending this impression to all media interactions, getting everyone all furious at him, and then dropping the charade in the middle of a press conference for seemingly no reason.
Also, this post reminded me that Wyatt Shallman bought a ferret. This has been the best offseason.
Spring Practice Presser 3-26-15: Mike Zordich
"Well, everybody alright? I'm good. Who wants to start?"
You have a couple of players who are new to the position in Brandon Watson and Ross Douglas, though Ross Douglas has played it before. How are they adjusting to that change?
"They're doing well. It's a whole different deal for everybody. It's a different defense, so everybody's making a lot of adjustments but those two guys are coming along just like the rest of them."
We've heard it said that you've played a lot more press coverage than they're used to. How have they adjusted and how much work is that?
"It's a lot of work. It's a new total concept for the defense, for these guys who haven't played- for Jourdan [Lewis] two or three years, for Blake [Countess] four years- so it is a new concept. It's a whole new technique they're learning so it's taking time but they're working their butts off. They're working extremely hard at it and in time we're going to get it done."
Press was something they tried last year and did a little bit of it and struggled with it. Are you guys totally committed to it?
"Well, that's coach Durkin's defense, yes. So yes, we are totally, 100 % committed. We've just got to find the guys who catch on the fastest and handle the technique the best."
Most cornerbacks are really excited about the chance to do that. Has that been the case here?
"Absolutely for us, and in recruiting they're very excited to hear we're aggressive on the outside and they want to see and hear what they'd have to do, so I think it will help us in that respect as far as getting some other corners in here."
Can you talk about Lewis and Countess in particular and their ability to do that?
"Yeah, Blake's an extremely hard worker. He's very focused. Jourdan's a natural at it. He's probably our most natural corner for what we're asking him to do. He does it pretty good but he's still got some things to get better at because of the fact that it's something they haven't done all the time as far as last season goes. But those two are definitely, as far as technique-sound and even athletically and mentally, more experienced in that way."
[After THE JUMP: Skills needed to play press, a transfer from Stanford confirmed-ish, and depth chart discussion]
Penn State Postgame Presser: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other items:
- Ondre Pipkins was dealing with "something" and should be back soon
- Willie Henry was dressed but didn't play; he's injured
- Hoke said any of the dressed QBs could have played, but read between the lines re: Morris and being injured
- Devin Gardner had a boot on his left foot after the game but said he'd be ready to go against Michigan State
- We talk about injuries a lot for not talking about injuries
- Penn State broke away from their tendencies in the first half. Hoke praised Mattison and the defensive staff for adjusting before the second half.
- Hoke again praised Matt Wile's kicking and Devin Gardner's leadership
Opening remarks:
"It was- obviously it's always good to win. We've had some tough times and tough weeks but the resiliency of our football team, the resiliency how they go about every day in practice and the hard work that they put in paid off. It wasn't pretty at time but I don't know if anything's pretty all the time and what they did, though, is they played together, they stuck together.
"We had some guys who were banged up obviously, and that's just part of football. If you're not banged up then you're really not playing, but we've got guys who are tough. We've got guys who understand what it is to play as a team and play for each other and play for Michigan, and I'm excited about for them as much as anything [that] they stuck together.
"Also, the environment, the crowd; there's no place better in this country when you have a game like this than Michigan Stadium. I can tell you our kids, they feel it. They feel it when those people are there cheering for them, and those students that were there, the former players coming back and supporting those kids; you don't get that at a lot of institutions or maybe any institutions like you do at Michigan. Very excited for our kids. We're going to enjoy it and then we'll get back to work next week on Tuesday and Wednesday."
Could you talk about the play of the defense in the second half, and then the winning plays at the end there?
"You know, I think a couple things: Penn State had a week off and as most teams do, you have a week off [and] you start looking at tendencies. You start looking at things that maybe have patterns to [them]. The first half they broke some tendencies that they had, so I think Greg and the staff defensively did a great job at half time. I think our kids had a will, and they willed themselves to keep going and it was pressure on the quarterback with a four man, three man rush that really worked out pretty well and maximum coverage. And part of that is that he has to hold the ball a little longer, and we got off the field on third downs which in the first half we really didn't as much."
We all saw Devin [Gardner] pacing the sidelines and grimacing and looking like he wasn't going to get back in. Talk about him coming back in the game and what he showed you and what he gave you.
"Well, Devin's leadership has been outstanding, and he played a game a year ago with a broken toe for half the game so you know he's a got a toughness to him. He is turning in, through his maturation process and everything else, into a tremendous leader. He was cheering the defense on when they were out there and he just wants to compete and play and the trainers said, 'Yeah, he can go.'"
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Upon Further Review 2014: Defense vs Rutgers
FORMATION NOTES: Not a whole lot was different, but Michigan did line up in a number of under fronts…
…so that was frustrating what with Ross playing SAM and Ryan at MLB, neither of them doing particularly well.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Usual rotation on the line except Charlton got the start and played about the same number of snaps as Beyer. Hurst continues to get a few snaps, which is a change from earlier. LBs same; corners generally Lewis and Countess with Taylor coming in for the nickel, pushing Countess inside.
Wilson went the whole way; Clark was the other starter at S with Thomas coming in regularly.
[After THE JUMP: the center cannot hold.]
This Week's Obsession: Bright Futures
The Question:
Ace: We're halfway through the season, and I'm in no mood to ask the standard "how is the team doing compared to expectations?" for obvious reasons. Instead, for a more positive outlook, let's keep our eyes on the future: Which player on each side of the ball has exceeded your expectations for them heading into the year? Has anyone, in your opinion, gone from question mark to potential star?
Seth: There has been so little good news from the offense that Jack Miller's play has gone largely unnoticed. I was ready to write him off after last year to the point where I was writing off the entire OL because Miller still had a job on it. Mea culpa; there's no whiff of Rimington in his future, but it appears the dude can ball.
|Miller seems to be involved in much of the offense's little bursts of running competence. [Fuller]
We haven't had a UFR for awhile, but when those do come out I bet you'll find the run game's quiet progress can be largely attributed to Miller pulling off the occasional block in a gap nobody but Molk has any business getting to. Even earlier in the season there were Miller-generated holes that the RBs just missed. Did you hear me, People of Earth Who Lived Through the Neg-Two and 27 for 27? THERE WERE HOLES! Upperclassmen are nice, and also a nice reminder that most OL take a long time to develop.
On defense it's Ryan Glasgow, with Jourdan Lewis running a close second. Remember what you thought when you first heard Glasgow was atop the depth chart? You thought "Oh dear, Pipkins is still damaged and a walk-on is ahead of everyone else." That seems like forever ago; it was six weeks ago.
It took just a few games for Glasgow to earn the Order of St. Kovacs, his asterisks packed away for his eventual NFL destination to do human interest stories. I remind you even the Great and Mighty Kovacs spent a season as the opposite of Ed Reed (and went out, miserably, on a play that reminded us how much he wasn't Ed Reed). Some decent run outfits haven't been able to get anywhere against Michigan except when Glasgow rotates out, and there have even been a few GRrraaaarrr plays of brute strength to hint at a higher ceiling.
His game could use some pass rush, but has exceeded expectations to the point that I want Adam to ask the coaches where was guy this last year when they were playing Jibreel Black at nose? I'll say this for Brady Hoke: when he's gone, I suspect I will dearly miss the Heininger Certainty Principle.
[jump for people saying positive things about offensive players, perhaps]
Monday Presser 9-29-14: Greg Mattison
Could you please identify yourself for those of us who don't know you?
"Oh, okay. Greg Mattison. I'm the defensive coordinator."
Coach, you were playing in your half of the field the entire third quarter. That drive right before the half: talk about in terms of what it did maybe getting the momentum-
"Well, I don't think it changed anything when we went in at halftime. I was disappointed in that. The thing I was looking at there was that if we could stop them and had a timeout left we could possibly get the ball on a short field for our offense, and that's my mistake. We didn't get it done and whenever we don't get it done I look at myself first, and as I looked at the tape- you know, third down…that's why I don't believe in stats a lot. Our third downs were adequate. They were adequate.
"There were some second downs we had to do better that we gave up some chunks of yardage [on], but to answer your question you're exactly right. As I was making the calls, as that was happening I said to myself, 'We've got to stop them here and get that ball for the offense. They're going to have a heck of a shot at possibly having a short field.' And then they hit the screen, which they did twice, which was just a very well-educated play and that comes down to one guy making a tackle and the guy made us miss."
Greg, Joe Bolden after the game Saturday talked about kind of a lack of execution and said that was a big problem. [He] mentioned wrapping guys up with David Cobb. What can these guys learn from that? He was really the first guy to run over you guys this season?
"I don't know if he ran over us but he did better against us than we want anybody to do. He's a very good running back. I've already addressed that with our linebackers and with our defense. We've got to play a lot more physical. That was the first time that I felt that we weren't the leaders in being physical against that offense, and it was guys not getting off blocks, it was guys punching and things that we've worked very hard on all camp and just not being physical. I didn't feel we were as physical as we should be and have to be and we're working on correcting that right now."
Is that a defense-wide issue?
"Yeah. It's total defense. Not just one position, it was total defense. I just didn't think…you know, we take pride and have all year, take pride in being a very physical team on defense and I just don't think we did as well as we should have there in that game."
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NAPLES - The car washes. The 25-mile, one-way daily commutes to practice. The annual games of water polo.
OK, so Palmetto Ridge finished fourth in the Collier County Athletic Conference swimming meet Tuesday. So the Bears aren't saving room in the trophy case for district or state hardware.
Senior Anizza Custodio, a three-year member of the Palmetto Ridge program, wouldn't trade it. Not for trophies, press clippings or even faster times.
"Why would you even ask that question," Custodio says.
Seemingly, she isn't alone.
Every day in the fall is the same for Custodio and her teammates. They drop their swim bags in the corner of Room 404, coach Jim Barr's classroom, in the morning. They return in the afternoon, pick up their gear and catch a ride on a school bus to Immokalee. They talk about boyfriends and girlfriends and weekend plans, and jam to undisclosed music all the way to practice.
The Bears have only 30 swimmers in the program — boys and girls. That's half the size of some rivals, a big reason Palmetto Ridge isn't a threat for team titles at the big meets.
But from small numbers can come great strength. Especially when you're together as much as the Bears, be it on the bus, in the pool or about town.
Six times a year, Barr has the Bears meet for car washes, the primary fundraisers for the five-year-old school's swimming program.
It was there that Custodio, who moved to Naples from the Philippines as a quiet freshman, was introduced to the strangers who have become her second family.
"I started being loud," says Custodio, recalling her early days as a Palmetto Ridge swimmer. "Being myself."
Make no mistake, Palmetto Ridge doesn't tread water in team competitions. The boys just completed their first 10-0 regular season, while the girls went 9-1.
Barr, who started the program from scratch when the school opened, can look to the list of year-by-year win-loss records on his dry-erase board for proof of the progress.
But it's not success that the Bears pride themselves on. From the freshmen to the seniors, they all share a bond.
"We're closer than any other team," junior Ricky Graham said. "We can look at one of our teammates in the water in midstroke — any of them — and know who they are."
The one who might be easiest to recognize is senior Steven Carroll, who has been the face of Palmetto Ridge swimming the past few years. Carroll owns the school record in every event, and Barr contends he could become the Bears' first state meet qualifier this season.
Carroll has been there, at Barr's side, to watch the program gather steam. He's been there as the number of swimmers has grown and the number of seats on the bus to Immokalee have shrank. He's also seen more and more swimmers join him in the club ranks.
"For a five-year school," Barr said proudly, "the team is doing very well."
Barr, though, says this will be his last season as the coach. He didn't think he'd hang around this long, but he made a promise to be there for Carroll's final year and has kept it.
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Mahan rides away with victory, roses
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Welcome everyone to episode 22 of The SharpShooter Cast! This week is a little different than normal. Instead of reviewing Raw, we're reviewing WWE's Tables, Ladders, and Chairs pay-per-view. Because say what you will about the quality of the show itself... it was kind of a big deal.
TLC was a big deal because of its main event - John Cena vs Randy Orton for a unified championship. Was this the right PPV to feature such a large match? Probably not, but that didn't make TLC any less significant.
Besides the unification of the WWE and World Heavyweight Titles, last night featured a few fantastic matches, such as CM Punk vs The Shield, Daniel Bryan vs the Wyatts, and AJ Lee vs Natalya. So without further delay, let's dive deep into last night's big event!
This week's episode covers:
- Aaron gets a ticket and proceeds to rant about highway patrol.
- A review and analysis of the 2013 TLC PPV.
- CM Punk defeats The Shield.
- AJ Lee vs Natalya is what Divas wrestling SHOULD be.
- Thoughts on the importance of the IC Title, and Big E Langston's progress as champ.
- Ziggler is getting screwed, and we're tired of it!!
- Aaron actually believes Brodus Clay will be important in the near future.
- The Wyatts defeat Daniel Bryan.
- Bray Wyatt is a hall of famer in the making.
- The Rhodes continue to impress.
- Randy Orton defeats John Cena in a good, not great main event.
- Reasons to be disappointed with the show.
- Final scores for TLC 2013.
- Tom trolls it up on Twitter.
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So what did you think of this year's TLC? Did it live up to your expectations? And are you satisfied now that Randy Orton is the lone WWE World Heavyweight Champion? Let us know in the comments!


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YIELD: Makes 8 servings
Whisk oil, vinegar, and salt in medium bowl to blend.
Cook green beans and turnips in large pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Drain. Transfer vegetables to bowl of ice water. Drain well. (Vinaigrette and vegetables can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill.)
Heat vinaigrette in heavy large skillet over medium heat until warm. Add beans, turnips, and peas; toss until heated through and coated with vinaigrette, about 5 minutes. Add all herbs and toss to coat. Season to taste with additional salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl and serve.