Category: Thug Notes

Since I’ve got two classes studying Beowulf at the moment, here’s a rerun of guest lecturer Sparky Sweets.

Professor Sweets introducing our common reading text at Troy University this year, Fahrenheit 451. Join our gang of scholarly hoods.

Check out Heidegger on “The Thing” and Blake’s “The Tyger.”

Sparky Sweets tells us about Mice & Men, and Cain & Abel.

You can see the full text of Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse” and hear various people reading it here, and if you don’t know the full story of Cain and Abel, here it is.

And now, where we learn that Chinese characters are essentially just the Wing Dings font:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI

Sparky Sweets on The Hobbit and Wagner.