Sweepers Library: A Search Engine

Klenwell introduced me to the Google custom search feature over the weekend. Interesting concept: define your own mini search engine. We have a couple shelves of book in our office we refer to as the library. For a while, we've been tinkering with the idea of an online library comprising the literary forbears and antecendents of the Calendar.

I'll continue to play with this is my spare time. Here's the library's Google Co-op page. Test it directly in the search field at right.

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

On the topic of calendars, scholars like to point to Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar as a literary forebear of the Sweepers. When I first raised the subject with the New Poete, he protested no knowledge of it and said he thought Wilson was one of Tom Sawyer's friends.

While I agree Twain is a superior author to our New Poete in most genres, calendar-writing is not one of him. As our Poete points out, he doesn't even have the months. Even Spenser got the months right.

Still, he thinks this a rather admireable sentiment:

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.