Monday, December 29, 2014

Gregory Benford: Still more from Anomalies

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More stories from Gregory Benford's latest short story collection: Anomalies Comes the Evolution" The characters talk, endles...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Thomas Hardy: "A Nightmare, And The Next Thing

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A Nightmare, And The Next Thing On this decline of  Christmas Day The empty street is fogg4ed and blurred: The house-fronts all seem bac...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Wallace Stevens: The Snow Man

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             The Snow Man One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain XXVIII

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Second Edition: Quatrain XXVIII Another Voice, when I am sleeping, cries, "The Flower should open with the Morning skies."  ...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind

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No. 10 "The dislocation involved in switching from one passion to another--even its very opposite--is less than one wold expect.  Th...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Another Dream?

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From Life is a Dream We live, while we see the sun, Where life and dreams are as one; And living has taught me this, Man dreams the li...
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Gregory Benford: more from Anomalies

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Here are several more stories from Greg Benford's latest short story collection:  Anomalies "Twenty-Two Centimeters" Th...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Octavio Paz: some short poems

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Here My steps along this street resound              in another street in which               I hear my steps passing along this str...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

My Dinner With Andre, a film

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My Dinner with Andre Last year I watched a remarkable film, The Man from Earth, an SF film without BEMs, spaceships, ray guns, space batt...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

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

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Second Edition:  Quatrain XX The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew--    I saw th...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

John Banister Tabb: "Evolution"--a short poem

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Evolution Out of the dark, a shadow,   Then, a spark; Out of the cloud a silence,   Then, a lark; Out of the heart a rapture,   Then,...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Carl Sagan: A Pale Blue Dot

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  PALE BLUE DOT: A VISION OF THE HUMAN FUTURE IN SPACE:  CARL SAGAN    “Look again at that dot. That's here. That...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Loren Eiseley: "Fly Falcon"

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Fly Falcon All of the falcon kind, the hard travelling                                  talon-clawed ones that for so many years I have...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Quatrain XIV, Second Edition

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This quatrain provides warning about planning for the future when we really don't know what might happen from one minute to the next. ...
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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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