Sunday, April 27, 2014

Franz Werfel: Star of the Unborn, Pt. 2

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What will humans and civilization be 100,000 years from now? The planet is unrecognizable to someone from the 21st century.  For the most ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Carl Sandburg: Southern Pacific, a poem

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Southern Pacific "Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long.  Huntington dreams of railroads he has built and owned.  Huntington d...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Eric Hoffer: Troublemakers

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The following are aphorisms taken from the chapter "Troublemakers" by -- Eric Hoffer -- from Reflections on the Human Condition...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Wallace Stevens: "From the Misery of Don Joost"

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From the Misery of Don Joost I have finished my combat with the sun; And my body, the old animal, Knows nothing more. The powerful sea...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Franz Werfel: Star of the Unborn, an SF novel

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Franz Werfel Star of the Unborn Published posthumously in 1946 607 pages Opening lines from Franz Werfel's Star of the Unborn ...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Seconds and Faces and Masks

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Seconds Directed by John Frankenheimer Released in  1966 Cheryl, one of my frequent visitors here, suggested a resemblance between the...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Baltasar Gracian: digging up the dirt

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No. 125 "Not the police court blotter.  The sign of blemish in yourself, to point to the shame of another: some seek with the spots o...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Museum Hours: a film

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Museum Hours Written and directed by Jem Cohen   Released in 2013 107 minutes This is one of those special, quiet films that I thorough...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Simon J. Ortiz: The Boy and Coyote

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The Boy and Coyote for a friend, Ed Theis, met at VAH Fort Lyons, Colorado, November and December 1974 You can see the rippled sand ri...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Helene Wecker: The Golem and the Jinni

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Helene Wecker The Golem and the Jinni 486 pages After reading the novel, the following kept running through my mind, adapted from a soa...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Face of Another

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The Face of  Another Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara   1966 black-and-white film Japanese dialogue with English subtitles This film is ...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

J. R. R. Tolkien: THE SILMARILLION--"Ainulindale"

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J. R. R. Tolkien "Ainulindale" Part One of The Silmarillion "Ainulindale" is the first part, appropriately enough,...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Contentment?

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I think Lao Tzu said something like this: "Those who are content with what they have will always have enough."  The corollary then...
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Eric Hoffer: dissipation

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#9 "DISSIPATION is a form of self-sacrifice.  The reckless wasting of one's vigor is a blind striving to 'liquidate' an u...
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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...