Howards End
by E. M. Forster · first published 1910
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Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece
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…perpetual bond. ... Given their long history, references to Consols can be found in many places, including literature such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Howards End by E. M. Forster, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham and The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy and in economics."
on “Billions in bearer bonds could be lost due to Hurricane Sandy: sources” ↗…humility, tolerance, and self-criticism. 8. They understand how to get things done in the world. 9. They nurture and empower the people around them. 10. They follow E. M. Forster’s injunction from Howards End: “Only connect...” All good things, IMHO. (Full disclosure, I'm a liberally educated physics major - went to a small liberal arts school with a very strong science faculty.)
on ““Only Connect…” the Goals of a Liberal Education (1998) [pdf]” ↗Never knew E.M. Forster did science fiction too. English author better known for the novels "A Room with a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910) and "A Passage to India" (1924).
on “OpenAI Major Outage” ↗…https://archive.org/details/loveamongchicken00wodeuoft/page/... - Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham, 1915: eight on the first ten pages https://archive.org/details/ofhumanbondage0000wsom_j3w4/page... - Howards End, E.M. Forster, 1910: at least 49 in the first ten pages https://archive.org/details/howardsend0000fors_q9r3/page/n9/...
on “A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Em-Dash” ↗This reminded me of E.M. Forster’s line from Howards End: “Only connect.” Not in the grand, ideological sense, but in the mundane, logistical one. It's funny how life optimizes for comfort and autonomy, but those optimizations quietly remove the scaffolding…
on “I rebooted my social life” ↗