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23. I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Herman Melville, Ch. 1 "Loomings" (1851)
Jun 30, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
A weasel is wild. Who knows what he thinks?
On Annie Dillard, Living like Weasels
Jan 20, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Jan 27, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Because this alone is what a man who came away naked could carry out with him
The 1542 Relaçion (Account) of Cabeza de Vaca
Jan 13, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (1976)
Jan 12, 2024 • Jessie Morgan
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1848)
Nov 25, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854)
Oct 27, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Winter afternoons with Emily Dickinson
Telling all the truth but telling it slant
Jan 6, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
25. Hope is THE thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers (c.1861)
Aug 18, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
Inform, protect, connect: facing the crisis in US higher education
My talk on Academic freedom at Leiden University last week
Apr 6, 2025 • Jessie Morgan
14:29
While these internal revolutions were going on...
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Feb 3, 2023 • Jessie Morgan
I kept on creeping just the same
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Mar 22, 2024 • Jessie Morgan
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