"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
2.Thanks to Samuel Pepys' journal, I know that January 1, 1664 was a Sunday "the Lord's day" but I can't find what the weather was on that day in Pennsylvania...
3. The five deadliest hurricanes in US history were:
- Galveston, Texas, 1900: 8,000 deaths
- Lake Okeechobee, Fla., 1928: 2,500 deaths
- Katrina (La./Miss.), 2005: 1,800 deaths
- Cheniere Caminanda, La., 1893: 1,100 - 1,400 deaths
- Sea Islands (S.C., Ga.), 1893: 1,000-2,000 deaths
5. Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport photo in which he looks quite sullen in a black suit jacket and white button down with tie and vest. The actual passport looks so much less official than those used today, the photo is stapled to the page and crookedly stapled at that and it looks like he signed his name right on the photo.
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