PROFESSOR CHARLES DEXTER CLEVELAND NARRATIVE HISTORY AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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1 PROFESSOR NARRATIVE HISTORY AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

2 1802 December 3, Friday: Charles Dexter Cleveland was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a son of the Reverend Charles Cleveland of Boston. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

3 1814 March: Charles Dexter Cleveland entered the counting house of William B. Swett in Boston, with which he would be connected until commencing studies preparatory for admission to college, in During this month, when an attempt was made in the port of Boston to confiscate a wagonload of British goods, this attempt was intercepted by a violent mob that had been stirred up by local merchants. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

4 1820 August: Charles Dexter Cleveland commencing studies preparatory for admission to college, with Mr. Pemberton in Boston, and then in North Andover, Massachusetts with Simeon Putnam, Esquire, after which he would enter the Phillips Exeter Academy. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

5 1827 October: Having graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy, Charles Dexter Cleveland became a teacher at a classics school in Baltimore, Maryland. He would teach for two school years, and would prepare THE MORAL CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS, IN THE GRAECA MAJORA, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES, and AN EPITOME OF GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS (Boston, 1827). LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? NO, THAT S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN S STORIES. LIFE ISN T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

6 1830 May: Charles Dexter Cleveland became the Professor of Greek and Latin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (until this college was forced to suspend operations during Spring 1832). He would publish FIRST LESSONS IN LATIN, UPON A NEW PLAN, THE NATIONAL ORATOR, A COMPENDIUM OF GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES, FIRST LESSONS IN GREEK, XENOPHŌNTOS ANABASIS KYROU, XENOPHON S EXPEDITION OF CYRUS, WITH ENGLISH NOTES, AND A MAP OF THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND, A SEQUEL TO THE FIRST LESSONS IN LATIN, A NEW EDITION OF ADAMS LATIN GRAMMAR, FIRST LATIN BOOK, SECOND LATIN BOOK, THIRD LATIN BOOK, THE ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE, A COMPENDIUM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, HYMNS FOR SCHOOLS, ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, and AN EDITION OF MILTON S POETICAL WORKS, WITH NOTES, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A VERBAL INDEX. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

7 1831 March 31, Thursday: After struggling at Dembe-Wielkie from 5 in the afternoon until 10 at night, Polish forces routed Russian forces. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 5th day 31 of 3 M / Attended the Moy [Monthly] Meeting held in Newport -Ruth Freeborn preached comfortably & the buisness of the Meeting was conducted with the usual regularity & weight with which that Meeting conducts its buisness But from some circumstances it was a season of depression. RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Frederick Brown (1) died at New Richmond, Pennsylvania. Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland and Miss Alison Nisbet McCoskry, a daughter of Dr. Samuel A. McCoskry, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a grand-daughter of Dickinson College s 1st president, Charles Nisbet, were wed. The couple would have nine children: Alison Nisbet Cleveland, Charles Dexter Cleveland, Samuel McCoskry Cleveland, Alison Nisbet Cleveland, Dexter Cleveland, Treadwell Cleveland, Wilberforce Cleveland, Eliza Cleveland, and Lucy Cleveland. James Hale, in charge of exhibiting the Chinese Siamese Twins Chang and Eng Bunker, wrote from New- York: We have not had forty ladies since we opened they you know are our best customers, if we can get them Our receipts have averaged but $20 per day and two nights at the Theatre paid $50 per night amounting in all 15 days to 425 dollars... I expect to go to Philadelphia on Sunday next and try it there, and feel afraid on coming back we shall have to come down to 25 cents to make money.

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9 1832 Spring: Left at loose ends by the collapse of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland would begin to teach at a boarding school in New Haven, Connecticut. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

10 1833 Charles Dexter Cleveland became Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of New-York (New-York University).

11 1834 February 12, Wednesday: David Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, Volumes 1 and 2 of Washington Irving s A CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA. FROM THE MSS. OF [the nonexistent] FRAY ANTONIO AGAPIDA (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1829). CONQUEST OF GRANADA CONQUEST OF GRANADA He also checked out Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland s AN EPITOME OF GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES.

12 FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS (Boston, 1827). 1 There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Emily Dickinson October: Charles Dexter Cleveland began a school for young ladies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This would occupy him until in 1861 he would become the United States Consul at Cardiff in Wales. 1. As always, a caveat: There were many editions of some of these works which Thoreau consulted, and since I do not presently know which edition it was that he consulted, I have tried to standardize by listing the edition and year in which the material had first become available.

13 1861 Charles Dexter Cleveland became the United States Consul at Cardiff in Wales.

14 1866 Charles Dexter Cleveland was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dickinson College.

15 August 18, Wednesday: Charles Dexter Cleveland died The obituary of Benedict Jaeger appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle. The body would be placed in Evergreen Cemetery. MAGISTERIAL HISTORY IS FANTASIZING, HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY Charles Dexter Cleveland Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project

16 COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this read-only computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace resulting in navigation problems allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the Stack of the Artist of Kouroo Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC Please contact the project at <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. It s all now you see. Yesterday won t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. Remark by character Garin Stevens in William Faulkner s INTRUDER IN THE DUST Prepared: June 13, 2014

17 ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT GENERATION HOTLINE This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot Laura (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button.

18 Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary writerly process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world. First come first serve. There is no charge. Place requests with <Kouroo@kouroo.info>. Arrgh.