Friday, February 26, 2016

N. Scott Momaday: "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

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In their own way, poems teach the reader.  Frequently they teach the reader something about the reader, sometimes about the subject of the ...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Emily Dickinson: "Frequently the woods are pink--"

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This poem, reflecting the change of seasons, is one of the most accessible and understandable of her poems,  at least it is for me.  Of co...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Favorite DVDs viewed during 2015

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Following are some of the DVDs that I watched during 2015.  Since I don't watch TV, I have considerable time now to read and to watch fi...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Kim Stanley Robinson: Aurora

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Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora This will, no doubt, show up on  my Favorite SF Novels List for 2016, as it's hard to believe more than t...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Eric Hoffer and dragons and devils

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Eric Hoffer has a unique perspective on the interrelationships among devils, dragons, and humans.  At least, it is unique as far as I'm ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Favorite mystery novels read in 2015

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The following is a list of my favorite mystery novels that I read in 2015.  All but one of the authors were already on my search list and t...
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Saturday, February 6, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LV

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This quatrain is thematically linked with the previous quatrain and several of the following quatrains with its recommendation that wine is ...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

Favorite novels read in 2015

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The following is a list of the novels that I had read in 2015 that impressed me the most among all the others I had read.  NEW READS ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Favorite SF novels read in 2015

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The following is a list of those SF/F works that I read in 2015 and that stood out among the many other works that I had read.  These will ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Robert Frost: "Dust of Snow"

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This is a short poem by Robert Frost, but it speaks of something important--the way small or seemingly inconsequential events can affect us ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Emily Dickinson: a winter poem

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Like Brooms of Steel The Snow and Wind Had swept the Winter Street-- The House was hooked The Sun sent out Faint Deputies of Heat-- W...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

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

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This is another of the quatrains that FitzGerald introduced in the Second Edition of his version of the Rubaiyat. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRA...
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Saturday, January 2, 2016

A Passage and a Poem: David Abram and Wallace Stevens

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I've mentioned this before, but I'll bring it up again because this is the basis for this particular post.  I would be reading somet...
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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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