Clippings

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

Discovery of this saying by John Muir at On Being's Tumblr site—

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

reminded me that long ago Leonardo da Vinci wrote

everything connects to everything else

I couldn't find my original citation; I suspect it was given one of Michael Gelb's books and I think a fuller citation is "Study the art of science and the science of art. Everything connects to everything else." This reference is to an article on da Vinci that Gelb published in the Australian GQ.

Classics

I think this makes a nice pairing with Ezra Pound—Literature is language charged with meaning. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Also "Literature is news that STAYS news." (ABC of Reading)

OxfordWords weighs in on the Pigskins controversy



I'm really impressed that the claims about the Pigskins name generated a noticeable surge in queries to Oxford. For all my respect for the OED I didn't think to look there.

Another sign of the tables turning against Dan Snyder—the University of Minnesota has asked the team not to wear logos or announce their name when they play at the school's stadium in November.