Being “nobody-but-yourself”
In the face of "a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else" and to make you a "consumer", it feels very easy to follow the crowd and feel like you are "losing yourself"
Neat Exercise Books Are For Wimps (& The Bronte Sisters)
There’s an interesting slideshow of 14 moments of literary genius over at The Huffington Post. [thanks Poetry Foundation]. Snapshots of the manuscripts of Shakespeare, Dickens, Woolf, Chaucer and the like are on show. There’s something rather magical about seeing drafts of classics I think. On a more teacherly note, though,...