Today's Articles (24/9/2025)
The summers are for swimming, for sticking closer to town, for Freddo coffees, for afternoons of shade.
Greeks know how to manage the heat (build houses made of whitewashed stone, irrigate the olives during waves of heat, wear linen, hide out during the unholy hot of midday, don’t take moronic hikes during a heat wave in late June) but the heat is mutating in degree and in kind.
Seasons, now, are just designations of time—not of weather.
[...] and its vigorous condemnation of what the brothers had termed “elegant variation.” This is the “cheap ornament,” still cherished by sportswriters, of clumsily inserting a synonym or a near-synonym to avoid repeating a word or a name. (“The fleet-footed second-sacker slugged a four-bagger.”) “The King’s English” also introduced the idea of using “that,” and never “which,” before defining clauses.