Saturday, December 26, 2015

Gregory Benford: two short stories from the Galactic Center Universe

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The Galactic Center series consists of six novels, ranging in time from the late 1990s to 30,000+ years in the future, and from Earth to ...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Jack Finney: About Time (short stories)

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Jack Finney About Time About Time is a collection of short stories, many of which, unsurprisingly, focus on time.  It is a quiet, relaxi...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Robert Grudin: Time and the Art of Living

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III.8 "One need only to try to remember the dishes one ate for dinner on each night of the week past to realize that the things we d...
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Monday, December 7, 2015

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LIII

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This is another of the quatrains that first appeared in the Second Edition. Second Edition:  Quatrain LIII A moment guess'd--then b...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Jorge Luis Borges: "Ars Poetica"

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Ars Poetica: Jorge Luis Borges   To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To kno...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Carl Sandburg: "From the Shore"

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Here's one from Carl Sandburg that caught my eye as I was browsing through a collection of his poetry. From the Shore A lone grey b...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: contradictory people

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No. 135 "Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity, and with peevishness, and your intelligenc...
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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Robert Silverberg: Downward to the Earth

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Robert Silverberg Downward to the Earth , Second Edition Published in 1970, this one somehow escaped me at that time. It's one of hi...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LII

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This is the third in a series of four linked quatrains, from Quatrain L to LIII. Second Edition:  Quatrain LII Whose secret Presence , ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Felix Gilman: The Half-made World

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Felix Gilman:  The Half-made World This is the first book I've read by Gilman, and it's a great advertisement for joining book dis...
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Octoavio Paz: Piedra nativa or Native Stone

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As I mentioned in earlier posts about Joseph Wood Krutch's Baja California , along with Eliot Porter's photos and Joseph Wood Krutch...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Eric Hoffer: conservatives and radicals

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Another quotation or aphorism from Eric Hoffer's The Passionate State of Mind. No. 21 "There is radicalism in all getting, and...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LI

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This is another of the quatrains that first appeared in the Second Edition of the Rubaiyat published by Edward FitzGerald. Second Edition:...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Ars Poetica

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Titles of fictional works, poems, films, and non-fictional works can't be copyrighted, so one frequently finds several works with the sa...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Lawrence Durrell: "Lesbos"

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Another of Lawrence Durrell's enigmatic poems--I don't know why I read his poetry, but there's something there that fascinates m...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Blog Problems

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Folks, Most recent and I hope the final update to the blog problem.  Cheryl, see her comment below, suggested allowing third party cookies...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Kenko: Signs of a well-bred person

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No. 56 How boring it is when you meet a man after a long separation and he insists on relating at interminable length everything that has ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain L

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Second Edition:  Quatrain L Would you that spangle of Existence spend about THE SECRET-- quick about it, Friend!    A Hair, they say, ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Scholar and the Cat, a poem

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The Scholar and the Cat                                        Each of us pursues his trade,                                        I a...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Theodore Sturgeon: "It," a short story

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Theodore Sturgeon:  "It" As I began reading, I found myself doing something strange:  I was pausing more often than I usually do...
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