Category Archives: Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia”

Confessions of a Historical Pack Rat: “Retired But Not Shy” at Eight

Posted on June 15, 2018 by georgelamplugh

[ Note:  One question any new blogger should—but probably doesn’t—ask is, “Will I be able to find sufficient material to keep this blog alive?”  I know that I didn’t think about this question in May 2010, when I contemplated establishing … Continue reading →

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The Uses of History in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” (Adventures in Interdisciplinary Land, 1)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  Of one thing I am convinced:  There is nothing new in the world of “Education.” Rather, the same ideas, usually with different names and/or ever greater reliance on technology, keep coming ’round, like some sort of bizarre, quasi-“intellectual” carousel … Continue reading →

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