Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time: Vol 1, Spring

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Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time Vol. 1,  Spring A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance World One o...
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Ray Bradbury: The Kilimanjaro Device

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Ray Bradbury's "The Kilimanjaro Device" a short story found in the collection  I Sing the Body Electric Did the title jog ...
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Gregory Benford: Anomalies

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Gregory Benford Anomalies a collection of short stories (1975-2012) The following are three of the short stories found in Gregory Benfor...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain VIII, 2nd Edition

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Some months ago I finished a series of posts on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated by Edward FitzGerald.  I went through all 75 quat...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Maltese Falcon: Three film versions

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A classic example of Hollywood's ongoing struggle to be creative, imaginative, and original is the remake. A great film comes out, or ...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Robert Frost: "Misgiving"

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An Autumn Poem---- Misgiving All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind !' The foliage follow him , leaf and stem; But a sleep...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Judex: a film

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Judex , a French language film Black-and-white, English subtitles Directed by Georges Franju 1963 The public library in Tucson publish...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Simon Ortiz: Hawk

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Hawk Hawk sweeps clear through the background which is sky and mountain ledge, --Old Chuska Mountain, my friend, shelter-- His imm...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Kenko: an anecdote, with a point?

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No. 45 Kin'yo, an officer of the second rank, had a brother called the High Priest Ryogaku, an extremely bad-tempered man.  Next to hi...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Lu Hsun/ Lu Xun: A Madman's Diary

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Lu Hsun or Lu Xun (his stories and poems appear under both names) is a new name to me.  I just happened to run across him while browsing the...
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Monday, September 1, 2014

N. Scott Momaday: The Bear

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Words are names.  To write a poem is to practice a naming ceremony.               These figures moving in my rhyme,               Who are...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Eric Hoffer: on total commitment

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No. 54 Anyone aware of the imperfections inherent in human affairs is hardly capable of total commitment.  Part of him will inevitably rem...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Eric Hoffer: some thoughts on freedom

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Some random quotations from Eric Hoffer on the nature of freedom: No. 55 We take for granted the need to escape the self.  Yet the self...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

Han shan or Cold Mountain: a poem

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Han shan was a hermit poet who probably lived sometime during the ninth and tenth centuries.  "Han shan" means cold mountain in Ch...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Baltasar Gracian: the necessity for the coverup

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No. 126 "He is not a fool who commits foolishness, but he who having done so does not know how to conceal it.  If your merits should ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Henry Beard: the anonymous old English epic--Beocat

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Following is a poem that dates back to the heroic years, a thousand years ago, an Old English Epic written by an Unknown Author's Cat.  ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Robert Grudin: the loss of the past

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III.2 "One of the most mysterious operations of time is the way in which things silently divorce themselves from us and slip into th...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Otomo no Tabito: a suggestion for the wise

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44. Instead of  fretting    over things that can't be changed, how much better    to swallow down a full cup        of cloudy sak...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Colin Wilson: THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, an SF novel

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Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone                                              PART ONE                                 The Q...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Eric Hoffer: quiet confidence and noisy insecurity

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No. 11 "The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power.  Moreover, passionate intensity can ser...
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