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| | A selection of classics from the Western Canon, as defined by the distinguished American literary critic, Dr. Harold Bloom.
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| | CORKSCREW:It is unclear who actually invented the first corkscrew to open bottles and jugs of corked beer, wine, etc. In the 1676 publicationTreatise on Ciderby John Worlidge, there is a reference to a device with a "steel worm used for the drawing of Corks out of Bottles" but there are no drawings or surviving examples....
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| | On Monday I introduced Harold Bloom's 1994 bestseller,The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. I decided to create a "canonicallist" in today's blog for those who are inclined to try to soak in this great radition. Taking the books that Bloom focusses on in each chapter and putting them into list form...
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| Previously in this article series, I made the analogy that the first two Sherlock Holmes novels were like feature-length pilot episodes for a television series for which the initial run of stories in The Strand Magazine, as collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, can be seen as constituting the first "season"; following this logic,...