Damn Interesting » The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff
By way of Execupundit, I discovered the Damn Interesting blog today. The article about the Nazi spies (follow my link to find Execupundit’s link) is interesting indeed.
But just now I’d like to mention that Damn Interesting did a piece earlier this month on The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff. I love the story, and I covered it on my 2nd episode of Build a Better Podcast, the short-lived experimental podcast I did in 2005.
In that episode, I also mentioned the somewhat mysterious relationship between Jonathan Swift and his great and good friend Stella. And I did a reading of Swift’s exquisitely ridiculous love poem “On Stella’s Birthday,” which might leave one wondering why, if Stella was capable of shooting a man to death (which she did), she didn’t choose Swift himself for her bullet.
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