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a selection from Moshe Safdie's memoir Beyond Habitat
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from a pamphlet written by Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
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sci-fi from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1973
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A page from Jim Theis' legendary tale, "The Eye of Argon"
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A page from Jeffrey Schrank's Teaching Human Beings: 101 Subversive Activities for the Classroom
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from the poster "A Guide to Deciphering Dessert" by Bambi Edlund of edible INK
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The first page of "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"
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A passage from the first chapter of Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis
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A brief passage from Douglas Adam's novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Nine steps to better reasoning from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
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A trio of short poems by the recently deceased poet.
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The full list is available here: https://itotd.com/articles/2444/the-questionnaires-of-james-lipton-bernard-pivot-and-marcel-proust/
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The conclusion to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story
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From that amazing book, the Principia Discordia
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A passage from James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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From Achille Mbembe's essay "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive." https://tinyurl.com/y793c57m
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From "What the caves are trying to tell us" by Sam Kriss. https://tinyurl.com/y6w22u9g
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A saucy 18th century example of a now-forgotten verse form
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A brief passage from the classic and prodigious work by Robert Burton
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"The Love Song of Shu-Sin," translated from the cuneiform by Samuel Noah Kramer
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From William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Some name this 1880 poem by William McGonagall as the worst verse in the English language.
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Shirt fiction from Uel Aramcheck. More if Uel's work can be found here: http://www.northofreality.com/
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From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, circa 1357-1371
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From Book V of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
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From Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read
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The opening of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as rendered into English by Isabella Mears.
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From the 1986 preface to Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
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From Shiv Visvanathan's essay "Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting Imagination."
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From The Tablets, a collection of poems by Armand Schwerner
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From Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design
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A page from the library theory of Russian educator Nicholas Rubakin
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A key passage in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol oft omitted from screen adaptations.
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From the opening chapter of Nell Irvin Painter's The History of White People, which is turning out to really be a history of the concept of whiteness, I think.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet and the alternate version by his friend Horace Smith
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From chapter 5 of Thomas Carlyle's amazing 1836 novel Sartor Resartus
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Poem by a.m.h. Thanks to my good friend Sarkos for sharing it with me.
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Follow along at http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html to get the most out of my struggles with my native tongue. Yikes!
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From volume 1 of Benjamin Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature
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From the second book of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning
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The ancient geographer's report on the barbarians inhabiting a distant island.
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Prefaced to an early work of Messrs. Marx and Engels.
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From Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
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The opening of a classic work on mechanics by Galileo Galilei.
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A page from Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
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A passage from Ron Padgett's Creative Reading: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why
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The opening to Aubrey Sitterson's essay Professional Wrestling: Burlesque for Boys, found in Nathan D. Paoletta's World Wide Wrestling: The Roleplaying Game.
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The opening to chapter V of John C. Palmer's The Morgan Affair and Anti-Masonry, found in Volume II of the Little Masonic Library.
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The first page of chapter 6 of The Principles of Psychology by William James.
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From the introductory chapter to Colin Wilson's The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2
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The last three stanzas from the poem by Edmund Spenser.
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From Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects
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From Henry Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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A page from Italo Calvino's classic postmodernist novel.
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From chapter 105 of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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An apocalyptic poem by Lord Byron, inspired by the Year Without A Summer
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From Cory O'Brien's irreverent retelling of world mythology, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
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From cartoonist Lynda Barry's amazing work What It Is. You really need to see a copy to appreciate the fullness of this passage.
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from Jack Prelutsky's collection Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
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Translated out of the Manx, the first 12 stanzas of the verse history of the Isle of Man, originally composed sometime between 1490 and 1530 AD.
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From the Letters Written in France of Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827)
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From Anglo-French historian and humorist Hilaire Belloc's essay collection simply titled On.
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An English rendition of one of the most famous ancient Chinese poems
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A passage from Anne Brontë's novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau. From the chapter "Hot to Check the Usurpations of Government."
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A second attempt at the classic poem of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first was meant to be episode 5, which disappeared due to some technical glitch or operator error.
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From Junkets on a Sad Planet, poet Tom Clark's extended mediation on the life and work of John Keats.
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A passage on the restorative properties of visiting the country.
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A passage from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
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An obscure short story published in the 1979 anthology Heroic Fantasy.
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A famous passage from Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
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A passage from the Icelandic saga of Thorstein Staff-Struck
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An interesting passage from Book III of his On Christian Doctrine, in which the saint acknowledges that some obscure Biblical passages can legitimately support more than one interpretation.
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From his short story/fictional essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
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A passage of Chapter 4 from the Poetics of Aristotle, as translated by Ingram Bywater.
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A passage from that section of Rabelais' Gargantua that greatly influenced the occultist Aleister Crowley.
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Satan addresses the fallen angels in Book I of John Milton's epic.
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Victor contemplates the threat of the female creature in the Mary Shelley classic.
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The first page in a landmark essay by the French philosopher.
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I start with the text that inspired this experiment.
