Compilations at Troynovant:
short (but rare & intriguing) quotations,
loading & stoking Trains of Thought;
listed by Title
These informal lists of quotations in prose or verse are intended to entertain, and perhaps to stimulate some new and wayward trains of thought. Lists are alphabetical by author, or chronological. Some quotations could as well arrive on one track as another.
The engineer said, when they cheered his name,
"We're right on time, but this is yesterday's train.""The Rock Island Line"
traditional
| Disclaimers and Dedications enter as a small Prologue, disarmingly |
RW Franson |
| Local Habitation and a Name, A the inspiration of words by reality |
RW Franson |
| Mix Pictures of the Mind the light of evening |
RW Franson |
| Poetic Troynovant renewing Troy in dreaming rhyme |
RW Franson |
| Queen of Dances Waltz observations by master writers |
RW Franson |
| Rhetoric or Else persuasive speech, or — ? |
RW Franson |
| Speaking through Texts manifest culture; & action this day |
RW Franson |
| Troywards Troy traveling, to and again recurring |
RW Franson |
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine and born of thee.William Shakespeare
Sonnets, 78
About our overlayered structure for this Troy-town maze of cultural stratigraphy — at Troynovant an entry is a review of book or story, of film or reel or soundie, if largely about a particular title; a glance or counterpoint to an article or curiosity is an illuminant; a folly mines a vein of humor, or if more pointed a satire; a memoir is a firsthand reminiscence; a postcard showcases a flat-carded Scene of Passage; a compilation gathers quotations stoking Trains of Thought; otherwise generally an essay.
Strata: an alternate Contents via topical StrataLinking.
Personae: an alternate Contents via emanant Olympians.
On muscular reading,
thinking with a vocabulary,
& the preservation of culture:
So Why Read Anymore?
by Victor Davis Hanson
at VDH's Private Papers
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