Saturday, August 22, 2015

Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman, conclusion

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Harper Lee:  Go Set a Watchman   Several days ago I finished Go Set a Watchman , and I can see why some would call it a mess, probably b...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman, Pt. 2

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Harper Lee:  Go Set a Watchman I have now finished approximately two-thirds of the book.  It covers the period of roughly twenty-four hour...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Harper Lee: Go Set a Watchman, Pt. 1

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Harper Lee:  Go Set a Watchman I am now a bit over 1/3 of the way through the novel.  It is, as purported, an account of  Jean Louise...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Wallace Stevens: The Night-Wind of August

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The Night-Wind of August The night-wind of August Is like an old mother to me. It comforts me. I rest in it, As one would rest, If o...
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

The Rubaiyat: 2nd Edition, Quatrain XLVIII

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This is another quatrain that FitzGerald introduced in his Second Edition and which remained through the succeeding editions. Second Edit...
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Monday, August 3, 2015

Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time--the dance is over.

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Sad to say, but I've finished Anthony Powell's magnificent work-- A Dance to the Music of Time.   The music has stopped, the lights ...
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Some Short Stuff from the Early Greeks

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Just some short poems and aphorisms from pre-Christian era Greece.  Nothing heavy here. Fox knows many Hedgehog one  Solid trick. -- ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Robert Frost: Putting in the Seed

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Putting in the Seed You come to fetch me from my work tonight When supper's on the table, and we'll see If I can leave off bur...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Eric Hoffer: The downside of some revolutions

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No. 63 The link between ideas and action is rarely direct.  There is almost always an intermediary step in which the idea is overcome.  De...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

William H. Davies: Leisure

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Leisure What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Ray Bradbury: The Lake

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One of Ray Bradbury's strengths is that he can take the simplest elements and create a memorable tale from them:  two twelve year-old ch...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

That Desert Island Thing

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R.T., on Beyond Eastwood , issued a challenge to come up with a six-pack of last reads.  I struggled for a while and came up with six, but I...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Rubaiyat: 2nd Edition, Quatrain XLVII

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This is Quatrain XLVII, one of the new quatrains FitzGerald introduced with the publication of the second edition.  It also appears in the F...
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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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