Today is Washington Irving's birthday, and I'm teaching "Rip Van Winkle" in my first class on US literature through the short story. Rip goes to sleep for 20 years and wakes up to find that the American Revolution happened and King George has been replaced by George Washington.
I would like some of that now please.
Today is Washington Irving's birthday, and I'm teaching "Rip Van Winkle" in my first class on US literature through the short story. Rip goes to sleep for 20 years and wakes up to find that the American Revolution happened and King George has been replaced by George Washington.
I would like some of that now please.
Imagine you've just woken up beneath an oak tree in the Catskills, Rip Van Winkle-style.
You stumble to a newspaper box, astounded to find a 25-cent paper is thin, tabloid, now costs $2.00, and this is the first headline you see:
"Bears circle SoftBank as DeepSeek clouds outlook for Stargate"
What would you think had happened in the 20 years you were away?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/02/14/companies/softbank-investors-deepseek/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
@Swede1952 Good morning—and, as always, lovely snap-shot.
I dabble in narration, so please excuse this unsolicited link to one of my readings.
#WashingtonIrving #Narration
https://soundcloud.com/user-651726783/rip-van-winkle-with-score
Genuine transfer from a stack of 78rpms purported to be narrated by "Old Ruben Hayseed", my great-grandfather who ran off to join the circus. Additional lines have been delivered by noted vocalists of
Genuine transfer from a stack of 78rpms purported to be narrated by "Old Ruben Hayseed", my great-grandfather who ran off to join the circus. Discovered in the bottom of a wine crate beneath a sheet
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