Sunday, December 31, 2017

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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May the coming year be a happy and healthy year for you.   Regardless of what kind of year 2017 was for you, I hope 2018 will be a better...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: is this poetry?

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Two young men are talking.  One is Walsh, the main character of Lawrence Durrell's Pied Piper of Lovers and the other is a close friend...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: sense of place, one last word

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"One last word about the sense of place; I think that not enough attention is paid to it as a purely literary criterion.  What makes ...
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Friday, December 22, 2017

The Story of God: a National Geographic TV miniseries

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The Story of God National Geographic Series Morgan Freeman, narrator Three DVDs Several reasons moved me to get this set from the libra...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Dark Tower: a few comments

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I finally got around to watching The Dark Tower.   After I watched it, I realized the film began with a very large lie: a statement to the e...
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Friday, December 15, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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  Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.  They are conflicts between two rights. -- Georg Wilhelm Frie...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Loren Eiseley: The Long Loneliness (from The Star Thrower)

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Loren Eiseley "The Long Loneliness" an essay in The Star Thrower The first two paragraphs of "The Long Loneliness," ...
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Saturday, December 9, 2017

Emily Dickinson: "Success is counted sweetest"

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No. 67 Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the p...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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VII.22 "Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws.  Plans made carefully and  comprehensively are sure to." -...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Spirit of Place

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Lawrence Durrell Spirit of Place:  Letters and Essays on Travel 426 pages Alan G. Thomas, Editor I am now embarked upon a project ...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Kenko: on doubt

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No 98 When in doubt whether or not to do something, generally it is best not to do it. -- Kenko -- Essays in Idleness Kenko is most...
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Gregory Benford: "White Creatures"

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Gregory Benford "White Creatures" a short story from The Best of Gregory Benford The story begins:   The aliens strap him ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually b...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Russell Hoban: Kleinzeit

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Russell Hoban Kleinzeit a novel When I first began reading Kleinzeit I immediately thought of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwoc...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Carl Sandburg: "Muckers"

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                   MUCKERS   Twenty men stand watching the muckers.        Stabbing the sides of the ditch        Where clay gleams ye...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Bokeh, a film

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Bokeh, a film A young couple, Americans, are on vacation in Iceland.  One morning they awake to find that everybody else has disappeared-...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

Ray Bradbury: "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind"

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Ray Bradbury "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind" a short story found  in Twice 22 This, of course, is a fairy tale, and that ...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Eric Hoffer: re-seeing the ordinary

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No. 90 Familiarity blurs and flattens.  Both the artist and the thinker are preoccupied with the birth of the ordinary and the discovery o...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Haiku Bells

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Long ago I believe bells, church bells, played an important role in everyday life, especially in rural areas.  I wonder if that's still ...
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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No. 224 I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far a...
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