Thursday, October 17, 2013

Nikos Kazantzakis: The Greek Passion

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Nikos Kazantzakis:  The Greek Passion Simon and Schuster Trans.  by Jonathan Griffen   Lycovrissi is a small Greek village that is und...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Joseph Wood Krutch on specialists and amateurs, Pt. 2

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More from Joseph Wood Krutch on specialists and amateurs.  He's found a kindred soul among the specialists. "The late William Mor...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Joseph Wood Krutch: on specialists and amateurs, Pt 1

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"Many specialists are very contemptuous of such activities as mine--but not all of them are.  Some steal time from their exacting purs...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Carl Sandburg: Happiness

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                               Happiness I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me      what is happiness. And I went ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain LXXIII

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This is the LXXIII quatrain, with only two more left in the first edition.  It's a bit different from the others in that it expresses v...
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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Sunday, September 22, 2013

A Boy and His Dog: an SF film

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I must admit that when I first saw the title many years ago, my immediate reaction was another "Lassie Come Home" film, so I igno...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Not the Messiah. (He's a naughty boy)

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Not The Messiah is an oratorio based on The Life of Brian, and it celebrates the 40 years of Monty Python .   It was a magnificent performa...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Robert Frost: Stopping by Desert Places

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No, I haven't gotten the title wrong.  I just conflated the titles of two of Robert Frost's poems:  "Stopping by Woods on a Sn...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Favorite SF Films

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This is a list of my favorite SF films.  It is not a list of Ten Best SF Films or anything as grandiose as that.  Some of these may be inclu...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable, pt. 3

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"A few years ago I chanced to write a book in which I had expressed some personal views and feelings upon birds, bones, spiders, and ti...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable, pt. 2

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This quotation follows directly after the quotation included in the earlier post titled "Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable."  I ha...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Frederik Pohl: Nov. 26, 1919 to Sept. 2, 2013

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There will be numerous obituaries appearing in the next few days, so I won't write anything extensive. except to say that whenever I saw...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Loren Eiseley: the unpredictable

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"Physicists, it now appears, are convinced that a principle of uncertainty exists in the submicroscopic realm of particles and that out...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain LXXII

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Another quatrain bemoaning the end of Spring or Youth. First Edition: Quatrain LXXII Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! Th...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Jerome Bixby's Man from Earth, an SF film

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Jerome Bixby is probably best known for his short story, "It's a Good Life," which became a Twilight Zone episode in 1961, as...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Tao Te Ching: Chapter 33--Knowing Oneself

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33. He who knows others is learned;     He who knows himself is wise. He who conquers others has power of muscles;     He who conquers ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Eric Hoffer: from Reflections on the Human Condition

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Something to irritate almost everybody .  .   . "#33  It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they h...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Loren Eiseley: on stability

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"Life is never fixed and stable.  It is always mercurial, rolling and splitting, disappearing and re-emerging in a most unpredictable f...