Yum. Archived interviews from the 1950s from The Paris Review: Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, James Thurber. The archives are being released by decade over the next year and a half eight months or so. Interviews from the 1960s are to be released 10 January 2005. Update: The Faulkner index page is there, but not the interview itself.

posted: 6:03:21 PM  

The battle of Agincourt (central to the story of Henry V) is modelled by G. Keith Still, a specialist in crowd dynamics. The diagrams are little hard to follow, but they support John Keegan's analysis that (as much as anything) the French were defeated by the crush of bodies in a confined space, somewhat like the Triangle shirtwaist factory disaster or the Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum stampede. (I see that the city's 25-year-old ban on general admission seating was lifted this year.) Also noted: Walter Daniel's Agincourt site.

(Thanks to things magazine.)

posted: 2:02:40 PM