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"Mothers" -- William Gaddis

“Mothers” by William Gaddis When Ralph Waldo Emerson informed—or rather, perhaps, warned us—that we are what our mothers made us, we might dismiss it as received opinion and let it go at that, like the broken clock which is right twice a day, like the self-evident answer contained in Freud’s oft-quoted query “What do women want?” when, as nature’s handmaid, she must want what nature wants which…

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Unveiling the Enchanting Charms of Bara Banghal | Kangra

Are you a traveler seeking an offbeat destination that offers the perfect blend of nature, culture, and adventure? If yes, then Bara Banghal in Himachal Pradesh is the place for you! Located in the picturesque district of Kangra, Bara Banghal is a hidden gem waiting to be explored. In this comprehensive guide, Mysterious Himachal will take you on a journey to discover the enchanting charms of…

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Carolina Lee - Satan's Gal - Handi-Book - 1950

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An Opportunity... And Gadriel took it.

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orietta gaddi

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04-04-25 | Portrait of dance pioneer Bernard Gaddis by Jason Skinner. misterlemonzlime.tumblr.com/archive

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Steamy Saturday

"Nurse Julie's job was her whole life. Could she risk losing it . . . to find herself as a woman?"

"The mountains were strange and lonely, and Nurse Julie Winston hated them."

But a raging snowstorm trapped Julie . . . in a desolate cabin, far back in the mountains."

". . . a mysterious man . . . burst in out of the storm . . . he was "the Wayfaring Stranger."

". . . Nurse Julie's life was never the same."

Not a whole lot of steam going on here, just a 360 change of heart in the magic of the mountains. Julie Winston is a recently graduated R.N. who dreams of working in a luxury city office where she would be well paid and have regular hours. But she is concerned about her widowed sister Linda who Julie believes is sacrificing herself needlessly by serving as a county nurse in a remote mountain area in the Blue Ridge. With that conviction, she sets off to the mountains to persuade her sister to return with her to the city.

The visit is prolonged, however, as Julie is unexpectedly called upon to nurse a patient in an emergency, and by the sudden arrival in a snowstorm of the “Wayfaring Stranger” whose name turns out to be Ken. Of course it is. Despite her prejudices about urban vs. rural life and her devotion to her career goals, Julie reluctantly falls in love. By the time she is ready to go back to Atlanta, Julie has learned to understand the mountain people and to appreciate the satisfaction to be gained from unselfish dedication. How heartwarming.

At first we thought that Mountain Nurse, published in New York by Macfadden-Bartell in 1959, was written with simple gratuitous benevolence toward mountain folk by an author who knew little about rural life, but it turns out that Peggy Gaddis (1896-1966) was born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Gaddistown, Georgia, founded by her family in the 1830s. Clearly, she knew a thing or two about mountain life and could write with authority. Indeed, she wrote several other romance novels with settings in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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childhood story written by William Gaddis, first grade (?)

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03-29-25 | Portrait of Dance Maestro Bernard Gaddis by Jason Skinner. MisterLemonzMen.tumblr.com/archive

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From William Gaddis’s Carpenter's Gothic

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William Gaddis, December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998.

1968 photo by Santi Visalli.

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We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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Hello Dr Reames! Do you have recommendations for books about historiography? I really need to understand what it is and how it works

So, the intro book I use in my own undergrad methodology class is this one:

Gaddis, J. L. (2002) The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

He's not an ancient historian, but that doesn't really matter, except that some of the issues unique to ancient history won't be addressed. Still, it's a very good introduction for a reasonable price. You can almost certainly find one used. For something specific to the ancient world, see below.

I have one caveat, and it's kinda a big one. He doesn't much like the social sciences, and repeatedly questions their validity. That bothers me, and I wonder why he's so negative about them? Perhaps he's run into one-too-many historians overusing (or flat misusing) social science tools like a shiny new toy. ;-)

But social science tools are perfectly fine, as long as properly employed. He does point out some of the (very real) issues with them when applied to history...but they're hardly the kiss of death.

For ancient history SPECIFICALLY, I recommend Stan Burstein's recent book on the topic:

Burstein, S.M. (2022) The Essential Greek Historians. Hackett (for Cambridge).

I particularly like it because he doesn't limit himself to "the usual suspects" (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius). They're there, but he moves on and addresses Greek writers well into Roman Imperial times, and uses a variety of sources, including some epigraphic (The Parian Marble, for instance).

This keeps his book from falling into the same problems as Finley's famous The Portable Greek Historians, which did stick to the Usual Suspects (see above). And it's shorter, too!

So there ya go, one "general" book on historiography, and one aimed specifically at ancient history by a towering scholar in the field (and a very nice guy, btw, who's even shorter than me!).

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