culture. education. literary studies.
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
In this post we'll do a bit of grammar practice on a special use of the verb 'have', namely the causative have. This structure is used when you want to say that you didn't do something by yourself, but they you've simply arranged (i.e. caused) for someone else to do it for you. It always …
I first learned about the Greek poet Napoleon Lapathiotis (ฮฮฑฯฮฟฮปฮญฮฟฮฝฯฮฑฯ ฮฮฑฯฮฑฮธฮนฯฯฮทฯ) from the 1985 film "Meteor and Shadow" (ฮฮตฯฮญฯฯฮฟ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฃฮบฮนฮฌ), starring the wonderful Greek actor Takis Moshos (ฮคฮฌฮบฮทฯ ฮฯฯฯฮฟฯ). The biopic, which was based on authentic documents and excerpts from Lapathiotis' writings, made me want to find out more about this controversial poet. A …
Recently I've shared a bit about one of my special interests - fungi and mushrooms - in the book review of Doug Bierend's book "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms". In this post I'm going to expand on that by giving a few listening tips on the …
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