Wednesday, June 29, 2016

John Muir on the unseen

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I just encountered this quotation this morning and thought that it somehow fits in with my previous post with the poem about the Unseeable A...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Wendell Berry: "To the Unseeable Animal"

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Here's a poem celebrating an unusual animal.  I don't think I've ever read about one like this before.   To the Unseeable A...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Gene Wolfe: A Borrowed Man, one of Wolfe's quirkiest novels

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Gene Wolfe A Borrowed Man Gene Wolfe, who regularly turns out quirky novels (who else would write a quartet featuring a trained and lice...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Cordwainer Smith: "No, No, Not Rogov!"

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Cordwainer Smith " No, No, Not Rogov!" from The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith 16 p...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXVII

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This is another of the quatrains Edward FitzGerald added to the Second Edition. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRAIN LXVII Strange, is it not?  th...
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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Hermann Hesse: Page from a Journal

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Page from a Journal On the slope behind the house today I cut a hole through roots and rocks and Dug a hole, deep and wide, Carted awa...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Laotse and Eric Hoffer: the odd couple

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I first encountered this theme in Laotse's Tao Te Ching and, to be honest,  I didn't understand the significance or the reality at ...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

Jane Austen: Predator and Prey

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Don't know why, but upon re-reading P and P for the x? time, I suddenly saw a new title for the novel: Predator and Prey .  The first se...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Editiion, Quatrain LXVI

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This post actually includes an error on my part.  When I went through the First Edition and included those quatrains from the Second Edition...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Chi Wu-ch'ien: a poet

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A Boat in Spring on Jo-ya Lake Thoughtful elation has no end: Onward I bear it to whatever come. And my boat and I, before the evening b...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Kenko: tricks the mind plays on us

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No. 71 "As soon as I hear a name I feel convinced I can guess what the owner looks like, but it never happens, when I actually meet t...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Fergus Hume: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

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Fergus Hume The Mystery of a Hansom Cab This is one for those of you who enjoy old and forgotten mysteries.  Fergus Hume certainly doesn...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Ray Bradbury: "The Night"

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Folks, spoilers follow, so if you haven't read the story and prefer to read it with no foreknowledge, you should stop here. As I'v...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Baltasar Gracian: Let's sit this one out

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Something to think about today. No. 138 THE SENSE TO let things settle.  Especially when the public, or the private, sea  is  most turbu...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXV

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This quatrain was added in the Second Edition but had been removed by the time the Fifth Edition was published.  Frankly, I'm puzzled by...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Flowers: One at a time, please

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Being in a contrary mood this morning, I thought I would post something contrary.       Bouquets One flower at a time, please however ...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Robert Louis Stevenson: Too simple to be profound?

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It often happens that while reading a story or a novel or an essay, which is moderately interesting, the author will say something that stop...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Eric Hoffer: More! More! More! More!

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No. 22 "MORE!" is as effective a revolutionary slogan as was ever invented by doctrinaires of discontent.  The American, who can...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Robert Frost's commemorative poem: Edward Thomas March 3, 1878--April 9, 1917

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Sadly, Edward Thomas is another of those artists, from many countries, whose artistic life was cut short during the Great War.  He enlisted ...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXIV

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Another in a series of posts regarding quatrains that Edward FitzGerald added when he published the Second Edition of The Rubaiyat. Secon...
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