From whiskey river:
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
(Alexander Theroux)
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
(George Washington Cable)
…and:
If we were not beings who pass quickly away like all other things, none [...]

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[Entry from William Shakespeare's recently discovered blog, "Honour'd in the Breach"]
Well now I’m not so sure workshopping Shrew was such a great idea.
Like I said the other day, I was really looking forward to the new group. I’d been working with the others for like SO LONG that we were all starting to get on [...]

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You know what driver’s-ed classes don’t teach you? They don’t teach you how complicated it is to make your way through a busy intersection of more than two streets, especially when there are no traffic signals.
I thought about this failure today, in connection with the 1972 film of the musical 1776.
Until last night, I’d never [...]

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Scary question? It depends on the answer.
A young actress, Ashley Brown of Broadway’s Mary Poppins revival, provides her take on it:

Not so scary, hmm?

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