Showing posts with label humans and animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humans and animals. Show all posts
Monday, October 16, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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Henry Beston Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine written during the late 1930s first published in 1949 When the nineteenth century and...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Loren Eiseley: "The Innocent Fox"

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This is an excerpt from an essay in Loren Eiseley's collection, The Star Thrower.   The essay is titled "The Innocent Fox." ...
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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Ray Bradbury: "The Parrot Who Met Papa"

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Ray Bradbury "The Parrot Who Met Papa" from Long After Midnight "The Parrot Who Met Papa" is the second story I ha...
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Monday, June 19, 2017

Dylan Thomas's Cat: Do Not Go Peaceable to That Damn Vet

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Do Not Go Peaceable to That Damn Vet Do not go peaceable to that damn vet, A cat can always tell a trip is due, Hide, hide, when your ap...
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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Theodore Sturgeon: "Helix the Cat"

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Theodore Sturgeon (1918--1985) "Helix the Cat"   a short story from The Ultimate Egoist:  Volume 1, The Complete Stories This...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Henry Beston: The Outermost House

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I had only in the past year heard of Henry Beston and his classic work The Outermost House.   This is actually my second reading of the boo...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Harlan Ellison: Some comments about A Boy and His Dog

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The following quotations come from HE's introduction to Vic and Blood , a recently published collection of the three Vic and Blood shor...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Some Poetical Cats

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A short time ago, I came across a small book. It was Henry Beard's Poetry For Cats . No, it's not a book with poems about cats. ...