Michael Hancher
@michaelhancher.bsky.social
Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law.
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/
https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/
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Learning from LibriVox
Founded in August 2005, the LibriVox international collective of readers-aloudSee http://LibriVox.org.
has posted more than three thousand audiobooks online, gratis, which have been downloaded, in wh...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"Creative reading" promised much: "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Creative reading" promised much: "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."
Before then, writing was just "creative." "There is ... creative reading, as well as creative writing" (Emerson, 1837). archive.org/details/orat...
An oration, delivered before the Phi beta kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
32 p. 24 cm
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November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Before then, writing was just "creative." "There is ... creative reading, as well as creative writing" (Emerson, 1837). archive.org/details/orat...
Comparing a red apple to a green apple,?
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Comparing a red apple to a green apple,?
Thanks! Now working on the index.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Thanks! Now working on the index.
A client passing the time, while his coins are being assessed, by reading a book (because there were no cell phones then).
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A client passing the time, while his coins are being assessed, by reading a book (because there were no cell phones then).
Thank you , Patrick (and also @theotherprofessor.bsky.social). I opened it up this afternoon to check the chapter number, and was reminded that it does look great as a book, thanks to @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thank you , Patrick (and also @theotherprofessor.bsky.social). I opened it up this afternoon to check the chapter number, and was reminded that it does look great as a book, thanks to @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.
Watched also by the client, who is reflected in the convex mirror in the foreground, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co.... Has he been noticed?
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October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Watched also by the client, who is reflected in the convex mirror in the foreground, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co.... Has he been noticed?