Thursday, November 29, 2012

Kenko: "In all things I yearn for the past"

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#22 "In all things I yearn for the past.  Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased.  I find that even among the ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LXVII

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Having finished a linked series of quatrains focusing on the relationship between the Potter/Creator and the pots/creatures, we now move to ...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Eric Hoffer: the central task of education

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#32 "The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people....
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Carl Sandburg: Phizzog

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Carl Sandburg in one of his lighter moments--or perhaps rueful might be more appropriate? Phizzog This face you got, This here phizzo...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Prometheus: a prequel or a remake or both?

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When I settled down with the DVD of Prometheus , I didn't know what to expect.  I had heard or read a few vague comments that suggested ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LXVI

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This is the last in a series of  linked quatrains that focus on the Creator/Potter relationship with comments by the pots or vessels express...

Simon J. Ortiz: Small Things Today

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Small Things Today  at my Hesperus Camp   Had a tortilla with some honey at midafternoon.  It was good. Wished I had some chili. Sm...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Eric Hoffer: desires and self-esteem

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# 5 "It is strange how the moment we have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves we are set upon by a pack of insistent clamorous d...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Thomas Hardy: Architectural Masks

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I have The Wordsworth Poetry Library edition of Thomas Hardy's poetry, The Works of Thomas Hardy , which contains all of his poetry.  E...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Gracian--talking about oneself

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No. 117 "Never talk about yourself.  For you either praise, which is vanity, or you reproach, which is poor spirit, in both instances...
Friday, October 26, 2012

G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday

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I haven't read much by G. K. Chesterton, save for a number of his Father Brown mysteries.  Therefore, I was expecting an espionage tale ...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Wallace Stevens: "The Reader"

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I may have mentioned this before, but I will say it again:  Wallace Stevens is an acquired taste, at least that's how I see him.  I can...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The House of the Dead

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky was arrested in 1849 for  being a member of the Petrashevky Circle and sentenced to death.  Granted a last second repriev...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain LXV

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This is the seventh in a series of linked quatrains that take place in a potter's shop in which the pots attempt to discuss the nature o...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Robert Grudin: space-time perception

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II.21 "We cannot project space-time into psychological experience without profound changes in perception and comprehension.  By fiat ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Immersion: Wendell Berry and Loren Eiseley

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"I have been walking in the woods, and have lain down on the ground to rest.  It is the middle of October, and around me, all through t...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Eric Hoffer: some thoughts on play

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28 "Man is a luxury-loving animal.  Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, bare...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Loren Eiseley: "Wind Child"

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WIND CHILD They have just found where Monarch butterflies go                                                                   in autu...
Friday, October 5, 2012

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LXIV

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This is the sixth in a  series of linked quatrains, all playing with the theme of the Potter/Creator, in which the pots reassure themselves ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Wendell Berry: a path and a road

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Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky)  is an American man of letters, academic, a cultural and an economic critic, a...