Saturday, April 25, 2015

Eric Hoffer: product of dissatisfaction

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No. 17 There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Earth Day: April 22, 2015

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Mid-America Prayer Standing again within and among all things, Standing with each other as sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

It's April

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I know--April is two-thirds gone already, but as the old cliche goes--better late than never.  Following are several poems about April, and ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Murder on the Orient Express--Hollywood at what it does best

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I just finished a film version of Agatha Cristie's Murder on the Orient Express-- the 1974 version.  I'm not going to do a summary ...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XLII, Second Edition

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This quatrain focuses on a libation "A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a god or spirit or in memory of th...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Theodore Sturgeon: "A Crime for Llewellyn"

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Theodore Sturgeon:  "A Crime for Llewellyn" "He had a grey little job clerking in the free clinic at the hospital, doing w...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Kenko: the ideal house

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No. 55 "A house should be built with the summer in mind.  In winter it is possible to live anywhere, but a badly made house is unbear...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Robert Frost: Trial by Existence

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Robert Frost:  "Trial by Existence" Normally I don't post poems this long, but this one I just have to.  It is, to me anyw...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Eric Hoffer: two types of freedom

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No. 57 To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do.  It is p...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

PD James: Unnatural Causes, Aunt Who?

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PD James Unnatural Causes This is the third in the series of mysteries featuring   the cases of Dalgliesh, James' poetry writing Sco...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Gene Wolfe's NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN--First impressions

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Gene Wolfe Nightside the Long Sun I've finally managed to get to the book and am now in Chapter 4.  These are some random impressio...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy: March 26, 1931--Feb. 27, 2015 RIP

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                                                              R. I. P. Leonard Nimoy died this morning of chronic obstructive pulmonary d...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Loren Eiseley: Coyote Country

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COYOTE COUNTRY If you should go, soft-footed and  alert, Down the long slope of shale Into a tumbled land of scarp and butte Beyond ...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XLI, Second Edition

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This quatrain, first appeared in the Second Edition, and remained in all subsequent editions. Second Edition:  Quatrain XLI For has not...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Two very, very different films

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Snowpiercer, an SF Film Into Great Silence , a documentary    Snowpiercer   Several nights ago, I watched two very different films....
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Some Great Books Read in 2014

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The following are books that I really enjoyed reading during the past year, and, if granted time, there's a good chance I will read the...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Russell Hoban: Feb 4, 1925 -- December 13, 2011

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"The Slickman A4 Quotation Event takes place on 4th February each year, to commemorate Russell Hoban's birth in 1925. Each year ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Harper Lee--Great News

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Harper Lee to Publish Sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' NEW YORK — Feb 3, 2015, 10:56 AM ET By HILLEL ITALIE AP National...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground I found that I had posted several entries about The Notes from Underground in association wi...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Robert Grudin: the mind's blind spot

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III.3 In the same way that our eyes have blind spots in space, our minds have blind spots in time;  areas of time which we habitually or c...
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