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A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#279: WITH TOOTHBRUSH AND WITHOUT. Colm Tóibín’s book Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush is a fairly splendid example of how much you can convey in the short space of 125 pages, and how much those pages can tilt your image of an artist and their time. Lady Gregory, if she is only a name to you, was, with William Butler Yeats, one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which did so much to expand and alter the culture of Ireland, and a prime mover of the Irish Renaissan
