Eilidh and I came across this Funeral Ode when researching the funeral of Old Abe Lincoln.  It hits upon our predilection for hands, in this case evil hands, that cause events to happen.  The hand, after all, is the cutting ...Read More

On Evil Hands and Funeral Odes

Looking into Our American Cousin - the play the Lincolns were watching when Abraham was assassinated - I discovered this useful synopsis by Timothy Noah. The full playtext is available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3158 ---- Our American Cousin Revisited Was the play that ended Lincoln's ...Read More

Our American Cousin