Hey Twitter family! Asking for prayers. My husband and one of our dogs was in a bad car accident yesterday. Tim is in the hospital with a fractured sternum and fractured L2. We are waiting for MRI results as they are checking for torn ligaments and tendons in his back.

Of course Prufrock is always wide-ranging, but this installment is exceptionally so (hence my cup of tea): open.substack.com/pub/prufrock/p…

Save this to read sometime later today, or tomorrow, when you need something very short, entirely unexpected, and quite wonderful: medium.com/adams-notebook…

👇 Fay Wray.

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A lost linguistic process (dying out in the 1600s) in which English adds the suffix -th (sometimes worn down to -t) to make a noun out of a verb (grow/growth) or an adjective (true/truth). This Germanic “abstract nominal suffix” produced a number of words—some of which…/1

we no longer hear easily as connected to their originating word: slow/sloth, to bear/birth, to steal/stealth, weal/wealth. Lovely examples: dry/drought, young/youth, merry/mirth, foul/filth, to heal/health. /2/

Flashback to 1884: Since July 23, when he came back from a suspension, Old Hoss Radbourn has started 30 of his club’s 33 games, and completed every one. He has started every one of the Grays’ games since August 20.

Happy birthday to Dr. William Carlos Williams, who watched the yachts contending for the America’s Cup off Newport, RI, in 1934, at the depth of the Great Depression, and thought of Dante and Virgil floating over souls of the damned in Canto VIII of the Inferno.

Stein on the Danube, 1913 wikiart.org/en/egon-schiel…