Showing posts with label Serendipity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serendipity. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Serendipity

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The Red Cockatoo Sent as a present from Annam-- A red cockatoo. Coloured like the peach-tree blossom, Speaking with the speech of men. And t...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Serendipity

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Since the Fall Equinox or the First Day of Fall is September 23 this year, less than two weeks from today, this poem seemed appropriate. Lat...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Serendipity

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One of the poet's favorite or at least one of the most frequent themes is death. I think Emily Dickinson wrote several hundred poems on...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Serendipity: Nietzsche

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Quotations taken from Human, All-Too-Human 83 The sleep of virtue. When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. I guess a little ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Serendipity: John Fowles, Wormholes

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I have never really wanted to be a novelist. For me the word carries a load of bad connotations--like author and literature and reviewe...
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Friday, July 8, 2011

Serendipity

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Here's an old favorite that I haven't read in years. And, now that I've just encountered my 73rd birthday, it's becoming a...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Serendipity

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I think I would vote for him. Montaigne quotes King Seleucus: "'he who knows the weight of a sceptre would not stoop to pick it up...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Serendipity

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This is something new I've decided to try out. Some might call it blog clutter, but I prefer "Serendipity," which one source...