Thursday, August 30, 2012

Barbara Hurd: from "Refugium," Pt. 2

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"Those who are fond of retreats--writers, ecstatics, parents with young children--often comment on the silence such time away allows. ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LXII

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This is the fourth in a series of linked quatrains that plays with the idea of the Potter/Creator and its creations.  Once again, its creati...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Barbara Hurd: from "Refugium," Pt 1

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Barbara Hurd has some interesting thoughts on retreats or refuges, a place to get away from it all so that we can get a better look at ourse...
Friday, August 24, 2012

15 Favorite TV Mysteries and Detective Shows

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I like to read various lists, but I seldom do one of my own.  I think this is only the third or fourth one that I've published here in t...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

John Burgon: Petra

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As it is John Burgon's birthday today, I thought it appropriate to post this segment of his poem Petra .  John Burgon was an Englis...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Kenko: on travel

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Essay 15 "It wakes you up to take a journey for a while, wherever it may be.  As you walk around the place, looking here and there at...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Dan Simmons' The Fall of Hyperion

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Dan Simmons' The Fall of Hyperion is really the second part of one massive 900 page novel, the first part being Hyperion which was pub...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Tucson Weather Report

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Tucson Weather Report Sunday, August 12, 2012 3:53 PM  MST Temperature:          108 F Relative Humidity     9%         Such ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Nikos Kazantzakis: The Fratricides

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Nikos Kazantzakis' novel,  The Fratricides , is aptly named for it is set during the late 1940s when Greece was in the midst of a civil ...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

Langston Hughes: Looking for Joy

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Joy I went to look for Joy , Slim, dancing Joy, Gay, laughing Joy, Bright-eyed Joy-- And I found her Driving the butcher's cart ...
Sunday, August 5, 2012

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain LXI

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Quatrain LXI is the third of eight quatrains which are grounded on the theme of the Potter and the Pot.  This one begins to present an inter...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Thomas Mullen: The Revisionists

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When I first picked up Thomas Mullen's The Revisionists, I thought it was going to be a traditional Time Patrol novel.  Some agency in t...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Lin Yutang: from The Importance of Living

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"No one can say that a life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunse...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Joseph Wood Krutch: the way of the desert and the way of the jungle

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"The way of the desert and the way of the jungle represent the two opposite methods of reaching stability at two extremes of density.  ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, novel

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Carson McCullers' novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , is a remarkable work in itself.  That it was published when McCullers was only t...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Koushun Takami: Battle Royale, the novel

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Koushun Takami's novel, Battle Royale , was first published in Japan in 1999 and translated into English in 2003.  The film version came...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Robert Frost: Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length

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One point to make about this title is that it certainly grabs my attention.  Usually I glance over the title, perhaps consider it for a very...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LX

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Quatrain LX continues the themes of the Creator or Potter, pottery, and earth.  In his later editions FitzGerald does something quite differ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Michael Lister: The Body and the Blood

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Author:  Michael Lister John Jordan series Title: The Body and the Blood Mystery Type:  Ex-Law Enforcement Officer Setting:  Contempora...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Woman in the Moon: a German SF film

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Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou were married from 1922-1933.  During those eleven years, they collaborated on a number of remarkable films:  ...
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