Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Paul Laurence Dunbar: In Summer

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In Summer Oh, summer has clothed the earth         In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue, ...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Russell Hoban: Eau de Hippogriff

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Russell Hoban Angelica Lost and Found Warning:  Spoilers Present   Roger délivrant Angélique (1824) by Louis-Édouard Rioult depic...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Different

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                  Different Not to say what everyone else is saying not to believe what everyone else believed not to do what everybody ...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Summer Solstice

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I thought I would post this, the first known poem in English about summer today, since it is the Summer Solstice, or the First Day of Summer...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Nightfall: Lord Byron, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Silverberg

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Lord Byron:                                             "Darkness"  1816, a poem Ralph Waldo Emerson:                           ...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

William Butler Yeats: A birthday

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William Butler Yeats Born: June 13, 1865 Died:  January 28,1939 William Butler Yeats is another of those poets of whom I have heard much...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Christie's novel--The Murder on the Orient Express--and the BBC Version with David Suchet

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Agatha Christie:  Murder on the Orient Express, the novel   Murder on the Orient Express ,  a BBC dramatization with David Suchet Murder o...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain XLIV

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This is another in my second set of posts about a favorite work--Edward FitzGerald's version? adaptation? interpretation? of Omar Khayy...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

China Mieville: Railsea

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China Mieville Railsea.   Railsea  is certainly one of his most straightforward and least complex novels, and  has that YA feel to it.  ...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion--"Valaquenta"

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J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion "Valaquenta"   Pt. 2 Account  of the Valar and Maiar according to the lore of the Eldar T...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Walt Whitman: a birthday today

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 from A Book of Days for the Literary Year On this day in " 1819  Walt Whitman is born in West Hills, Long Island.  Robert Louis Stev...
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Robert Grudin: Which is most important: History or Interpretations of history?

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III.4 From his exile at San Casciano, Machiavelli wrote a friend that he spent much time reading the works of ancient writers, adding curi...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Four SF films

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Predestination  (2014) The Edge of Tomorrow  (2014) Solaris  (1972) The Zero Theorem   (2013) Predestination   I watched Predest...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Loren Eiseley: "The Sandburs Say No"

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Life is persistent and patient.  I think Life is the source of the saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."  L...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Favorite Mystery Series--Books

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This is the growing list--both in the sense that authors are occasionally added to it and that many of the authors are still providing us wi...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Man from Earth and "The Gnarly Man"

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I just read L. Sprague de Camp's short story, "The Gnarly Man."  It's included in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp. The Gna...
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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: go with the crowd?

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No. 133   "Better a fool with the crowd, than a sage by yourself;  the politicians say, that if all men are fools, no one of them ca...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition--Quatrain XLIII

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This is another in my second set of posts about a favorite work--Edward FitzGerald's version? adaptation? interpretation? of Omar Khayya...
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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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