Monday, July 26, 2010

Something to think about

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From China, France, and Israel When things fully flourish they begin to decline. At midday the sun begins to set. When the moon is done waxi...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXIX

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Quatrain XXIX is the third in a series of four linked quatrains: XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, and XXX. First Edition: Quatrain XXIX Into this Univ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Something to think about

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In Ursula Le Guin's novel, The Left Hand of Darkness , the human inhabitants of the planet Gethen have apparently been subjects in a ...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Mircea Eliade: youth without youth

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Mircea Eliade was born in Romania in 1907 and died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1986. He is described as a journalist, an historian of religi...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Robert Silverberg (ed): Far Horizons

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Robert Silverberg (ed): Far Horizons TABLE OF CONTENTS Ursula K. Le Guin: "Old Music and the Slave Women" (the Hainish and Eku...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Henry David Thoreau: July 12, 1817-- May 6, 1862

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One most frequently encounters quotations from Thoreau's most well-known work Walden , so I thought that I would provide something that...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Loren Eiseley: Sept . 3, 1907--July 9, 1977

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From Loren Eiseley's essay "The Judgment of the Birds" On the maps of the old voyageurs it is called "Mauvaises Terres...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Something to think about

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It is no weakness for the wisest man To learn when he is wrong, know when to yield. So, on the margin of a flooded river Trees bending to t...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXVIII

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This is the second quatrain in what I see as a linked series of four quatrains. In Quatrain XXVII, the narrator tells us that he listened t...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Franz Kafka: July 3, 1883--June 3, 1924

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his h...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Shirley Jackson: "The Lottery"

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Warning: I will reveal significant plot elements and the ending. One of my favorite short stories is "The Lottery" by Shirley...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: June 27, 1872--Feb 9, 1906

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This is the poem that gave Maya Angelou the title for her poem and the first part of her autobiography-- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . ...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Combination Plate 15

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Warning: I will discuss significant plot elements and the endings. Anthony Boucher: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars, a mystery no...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Something to think about

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The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (Egyptian), c. 1800 B. C.: "Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do."...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

John Cowper Powys: Three Fantasies

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John Cowper Powys Three Fantasies I came across John Cowper Powys' Three Fantasies in a used bookstore. I had heard about him in grad ...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Edward FitzGerald: March 31, 1809--June 14, 1883

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On this day, I thought it only appropriate to post the last two quatrains from the First Edition of his interpretation of The Rubaiyat of Om...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXVII

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Quatrain XXVII is the first in what I see as four linked quatrains--Quatrain XXVII through Quatrain XXX. This quatrain provides the setting...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Something to think about

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Shelley's irony is fascinating here and to capture it, one must read this poem twice. First, put yourself in Ozymandias' place and ...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Fata Morgana: a film by Werner Herzog

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Fata Morgana is my nominee for the strangest film I've viewed this year. It came out in 1971, but I just recently noticed it and decid...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Thomas Hardy: June 2, 1840--Jan. 11, 1928

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In his prose and poetry, Thomas Hardy often celebrated the heroism of the individual's struggle to survive in an uncaring universe, but ...
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