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The Stranger's Voice
The world through a lense of difference, past and present.
1 Pilgrimage to the Holy LandGustavus Adolphus, late king of Sweden, plans a trip to Palestine, and requests international compatriots. Originally from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Friday, February 3, 1815 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 |
2 A Chinese View of the Statue of LibertyBy Saum Song Bo “And this statue of Liberty is a gift to a people from another people who do not love or value liberty for the Chinese.” Originally from The American Missionary, January 1885 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 |
3 The Chinese Room Thought ExperimentThursday, August 14, 2003 |
4 How They Telegraph ChineseThursday, August 14, 2003 |
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5 The Moral Character of the MonkeyBy Rev. W. Jones, of Nayland Monkeys are ungrateful creatures, but can be caught with pitch-lined gloves. They like to ride pigs. A monkey will unfold all your papers and scatter them about the room. Originally from Littell's Living Age (Reprinted from Sharpe's Magazine), Saturday, May 9, 1846 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
6 New Discoveries in Acoustics.A description of the Pyrophone, an early sound synthesizer utilizing tubes and fire. Originally from Manufacturer and Builder Magazine, 1876 Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
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7 Give the Country the FactsThe country is tired of the Philippine War. It would like to close the account. Originally from The Atlantic Monthly (Volume LXXXVII, page 424-426), March 1901 Friday, August 22, 2003 |
8 John Jones' MonumentBy Rev. C. M. Livingston With $50,000 over the course of his life, what did John Jones accomplish? Originally from Wit and Humor of the Age: comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes, and magic. (Editor: L. W. Yaggy), 1883 Monday, August 25, 2003 |
9 A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed PunstersOne of the most agonizing pieces of prose ever written, and a warning to all who would use puns. Originally from The Living Age (Volume 9, Issue 106), Saturday, May 23, 1846 Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
10 I Have a DreamBy Martin Luther King, Jr. In the intervening years, this speech has been reinterpreted and co-opted by: those who would make King into a good negro, forgetting his uncomfortable, “Why We Can't Wait” radicalism; those who would make King into an Uncle Tom, claiming that he didn't go far enough, that his non-violence can be equated with weakness; those who would throw the first stone, and use his philandering as a convenient reason to dismiss his nights and days of work, his jail time, his constant labor; and those who take pleasure in the rhetorical grace of the speech, but ignore its native substance, and sample the speech for pop songs, layer it into montages, or use it in television commercials. None of this co-opting changes the fact that the speech is one of the few excellent pieces of exhortatory, visionary rhetoric ever written, and certainly the last great city-on-the-hill vision of America that we've received—written by a man who lived under segregation in the old, bad south. 40 years to the day later, the vision is far from realized. But at least it's a lighthouse towards which to steer. Originally from Wednesday, August 28, 1963 Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
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