Thursday, February 27, 2014

John Bradshaw: Cat Sense

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John Bradshaw Cat Sense Basic Books, NY This is one of the best books I've read on cats.  Bradshaw is the Foundation Director of th...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and some like-minded poets

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#17 Hundred-foot trees produced by Heaven get sawed into giant planks unfortunate building timber gets left in a hidden valley its hea...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Langston Hughes: two poems

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Empty House It was in the empty house That I came to dwell And in the empty house I found an empty hell. Why is it that an empty hou...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Loren Eiseley: In the Tales to Come

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In The Tales To Come "I have met the echo people, coyotes, once in my youth, deep in a badland canyon, coming upon them unaware.  ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Some great books I read in 2013

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As I had mentioned in my previous post, I lost considerable information regarding books I had read.  This will therefore be a partial list o...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Kenko: inevitable change

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No. 26 "When I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms sca...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Congruence

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  Ah, the sad expression in the eyes                      of that caged bird--                             envying the butterfly!       ...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Some great DVDs viewed in 2013

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This will be a short list, mostly because I bought a new computer and lost most of my files during the changeover.  They are in no particula...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Robert Grudin: the perfect comeback--hours later

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III.5 "The French use the term ' esprit de l'escalier '  ('wit of the stairway') to describe the brilliant comme...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Friedrich Nietzsche: on disarmament

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#284 " The means to real peace .   No government admits any more that it keeps an army to satisfy occasionally the desire for conques...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Emily Dickinson

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This is another of Emily Dickinson 's many poems on death.  It focuses on death as a being restful, a safe shore--a common theme in her ...

Joseph Wood Krutch: a prophecy?

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"An obviously unfriendly reporter revealed not long ago that President Eisenhower had ordered removed from the White House lawn the sq...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

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The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate ….. When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate ….. The weakening ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Drew Magary: The Postmortal

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Drew Magary The Postmortal   Drew Magary's  The Postmortal is probably the best SF novel that explores the theme of an extended li...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Edward Thomas: The Unknown Bird

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I must admit I know little about Edward Thomas, except that he was a friend of Robert Frost, which definitely is a plus for him.  I was only...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Last Quatrain

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I've stalled around a bit in posting on this quatrain: it's the last one for all editions.  I started this project on September 26, ...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

12 Angry Men: three versions of this film

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12 Angry Men, US Film  (1957) This film appeared in the theaters in 1957 and, while a critical success, did not attract an audience and di...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Europa Report: An SF film

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Europa Report   ( ER)    is one of the best SF films I've viewed in some time.  I actually hadn't heard much about it before I cam...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

More Autumn Haiku

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The storm has moved on and the sun is now shining on Tucson.         Pebbles shining clear, And clear six silent fish .  .  .         D...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Some autumn haiku

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The first winter storm has settled down over Tucson for the past two days--temperatures in the low 50s--grey, gloomy overcast skies--rain, r...
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