The Misfortunes of Silenus (detail), c. 1500 by Pierro di Cosimo (1462-1522)
Day: July 14, 2018
The Peasant and the Birdnester — Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Peasant and the Birdnester, 1568 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569)
Bird’s Nest — Vincent van Gogh
Bird’s Nest, 1885 by Vincent van Gogh (1843-1890)
Sometimes not so adequate | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for July 14th, 1850
Lenox, July 14th.–The tops of the chestnut-trees have a whitish appearance, they being, I suppose, in bloom. Red raspberries are just through the season.
Language,–human language,–after all, is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls and other utterances of brute nature,–sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for July 14th, 1850. From Passages from the American Note-Books.
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