Tree merging
The pine cone landed in the crepe myrtle tree

New Online Shakespeare Resource
Very cool new resource:The Shakespeare Quartos Archive.I'm going to try to incorporate this into next year's Shakespeare class.

I enjoy quizzes
Flags of the World (The Hard Ones) Score: 100% (12 out of 12)

This is too much fun
And you can tell I'm an academic.I found via, well, everyone on Facebook an academic sentence generator from the University of Chicago's Writing Program.Some of my favorites:The epistemology of the gaze may be parsed as the invention of print culture.The reification of pop culture replays (in parodic form) the fantasy of the nation-state.The eroticization of praxis is strictly congruent with the discourse of agency.The poetics of civil society asks to be read as the systemization of power/knowledge.I might be a little guilty of writing sentences like this at some point in my academic

Recommended reading -- requests
At the beginning of summer 2008, I was anticipating teaching the Survey of British Literature after 1798 for Fall semester 2008. That never materialized, since we got different jobs and left Florida.But now, I'm scheduled to teach the course this spring. I've got an overall idea of what we're doing, and I feel fairly confident in the literature that I will be teaching -- much of which will be poetry. At the same time, I know that I have some significant gaps in my knowledge of Victorian literature, and Victorian novels in particular.This isn't a request for course material (we're reading Wuthering Heights and using the Blackwell Anthology), but rather a re