stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright. Its title is derived
from "Give peace in our time, O Lord" from the English Book of Common
Prayer. Hemingway first used the title for a collection of six
nonfiction vignettes of 75 to 187 words, commissioned by Ezra Pound for
The Little Review. He added 12 more vignettes for in our time (with
lower-case title), published in 1924 in Paris, about matadors, the
Battle of Mons, the Greco-Turkish War and the execution of six Greek
cabinet ministers. The 1925 New York collection combined these and
fourteen newly written short stories, including "Indian Camp" and "Big
Two-Hearted River", two of his best-known Nick Adams stories. He added
"On the Quai at Smyrna" for the 1930 edition. The collection resonates
with themes of alienation, loss, grief and separation, and includes
descriptions of war, bullfighting and current events. It is the earliest
Hemingway work to employ his iceberg theory of writing, in which the
underlying meaning is hinted at, rather than explicitly stated. The
volume attracted attention from reviewers and is an important work in
his canon.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(short_story_collection)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
41:
Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards murdered
Roman emperor Caligula, replacing him with his uncle Claudius.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula>
1458:
The 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus was unanimously proclaimed
King of Hungary after the Estates were persuaded to do so by his uncle
Michael Szilágyi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Corvinus>
1848:
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
(reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the
California Gold Rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush>
1978:
The Soviet nuclear powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up
during reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest
Territories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954>
2011:
A suicide bomber killed 37 people at Domodedovo International
Airport in Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kakistocracy:
Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified
citizens.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kakistocracy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We contemplate eternity Beneath the vast indifference of heaven.
--Warren Zevon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon>
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