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• Time Present

  
  THROUGHSTONES — Authority: 92
  It has been snowing. I gaze out over the houses below, across to the Burrows.    I hear birds and the distant roar of the sea. No traffic. Down below, the snow is blending the houses into the landscape: softening their contours. Even the ‘new’ houses to the far right seem less intrusive –  they are ...
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• Mr. Jones And Me …

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 127
    are now 45!!!! I’m the same age as a gun, an obsolete vinyl musical thing, a popular angle, and the guy who crushed that other guy’s head using a car door. … oh!  and Vinnie Jones  too!   note: I’m sure he’s written a post about me entitled “ Mr. Janes And Me … “ double note: ...
  2 days ago

• Fading Phrases, Rising Words

  
  The Task at Hand — Authority: 112
  The sky clears, a rising wind from the north sending a fog of celebration out to sea.  The moon herself rides high and fast between the scudding clouds.  This moon called Blue, not blue at all but white, whiter than any snow, shines brilliant and harsh, lighting the transition between old and new as one year ...
  6 days ago

• ends and beginnings

  
  even*cleveland — Authority: 136
  What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. And every phrase And sentence that is right (where every word is at home, Taking its place to support the others, The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An easy commerce of the old and the ...
  6 days ago

• “Dum spiro, spero” (Latin, ‘While I breathe, I hope’)

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 119
  “Snow at Montmartre,” by Hippolyte-Camille Delpy (1869, oil on canvas)“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~ ConfuciusWell, the clock is ticking down (not that clocks tick any ...
  6 days ago

• The Semantics of Murder

  
  SeevsPlace — Authority: 112
  I just finished this complex fiction based on truth, The Semantics of Murder , by Aifric Campbell, a young Irish writer living in England. John Kelly sent the book as an Xmas gift and wants to compare notes; he bought an extra copy for himself. It’s about two brothers 18 years apart in age and a mother who ...
  1 week ago

• End of the Year Lists

  
  Francisco's Journal — Authority: 92
  For the first time in my writing career, a book of mine has appeared on various Best Book of the Year lists. I’ve been wondering for a couple of weeks now as to how to respond. I referenced the various lists and commendations on this website, but I felt that this praise, proud as I am of having a book of mine be the ...
  1 week ago

• Keeping Christmas: The Light

  
  The Task at Hand — Authority: 112
    O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant, The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters, The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers, Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees, Industrial lords and petty ...
  1 week ago

• Not with a bang but a whimper

  
  HIV/AIDS Skepticism — Authority: 118
  This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. That’s the conclusion of one of T. S. Eliot’s best known poems, “The Hollow Men”, which begins, We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together End and beginning seem very appropriate respectively to HIV/AIDS theory and to its ...
  1 week ago

• The Book of Opportunity

  
  The Write Soul — Authority: 106
  “A New Years resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” ~Author Unknown As a New Year approaches, the urge to take stock of our life bubbles up like a sip of fine champagne. Let’s lift a glass and toast our accomplishments, savoring the taste of our creative endeavors…the potential of ...
  1 week ago

• 4 Classic Christmas Reads

  
  Matador Goods — Authority: 481
  Photos by stuartpilbrow Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Apart from compunctious chocolate eating and watching endless reruns of Friends on television, it’s also that time of the year when I spend time with friends and extended family scattered across the globe. Though I had a few Christian friends ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Art of Looking Sideways

  
  Beth Kephart Books — Authority: 134
  "... the larger part of the labour of an author in composing his work is critical labour; the labour of shifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing." This is T.S. Eliot, quoted on page 424 of The Art of Looking Sideways , the final present of perhaps five dozen presents that I now wrap so that ...
  2 weeks ago

• the sun stands still

  
  Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian — Authority: 129
  Happy Winter Solstice all. The days are getting (a very little bit) longer from now on out. The light of the world is coming! I learned today that "solstice," means, "the sun stands still." For more interesting facts about the solstice, check out National Geographic . from FOUR QUARTETS: East Coker O dark ...
  2 weeks ago

• Solstice Silence, Solstice Song

  
  The Task at Hand — Authority: 112
  Permeated with commercial hustle and cultural bustle, the days before Christmas are ferociously busy. It’s a time of almost continuous activity. Christian and non-Christian alike bake cookies, decorate homes, put up trees, exchange gifts, send cards or email and socialize until it seems every available minute has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Outside Toyland, Looking In

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 122
  By Maddie Hoagland-Hanson A week or so ago, as I lay on my common room floor reading Wallace Stevens and trying to think intelligently (a task I have been finding increasingly difficult of late), I was disturbed by a rush of loud music from the apartment below mine, accompanied by the palpable thump of an electric ...
  2 weeks ago

• Go See! August: Osage County

  
  Mollytics! — Authority: 121
  I die . Figuratively, of course. But August: Osage County is one dark comedy . HOT MAMA: Estelle Parsons (from left), Angelica Torn, Amy Warren and Shannon Cochran in "August: Osage County." (Robert J. Saferstein) At many points during the play last night, I found I was either holding my breath, or out of ...
  3 weeks ago

• bebelestrange:ragged claws

  
  Eight Six Four Oh Oh — Authority: 504
  bebelestrange : ragged claws
  3 weeks ago

• Video: T.S. Eliot reading “The Waste Land”

  
  the listenerd — Authority: 476
  I recommend watching this post and the previous one at the exact same time. Also, I think he’s reading it wrong. I will offer an alternate interpretation soon. [ coudal ] Tagged: eliot, poetry, reading, t.s. eliot, the waste land, video, youtube
  3 weeks ago

• Kindle Schmindle

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 524
  I have a house full of books. Every room in the house has bookshelves. Last summer, I put four new six foot tall shelves in the basement and filled them, front and back — that got the books off the floor around the rest of the house. That’s the second time I’ve done this. So, some people like the clutter of ...
  3 weeks ago

• 21 Jump Street: "Dont Pet The Teacher"

  
  Tomato Nation — Authority: 123
  "Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 1 0! Its a Christmas miracle!Nighttime at a high school whose physical plant is modeled after the Taj Mahal. A synthesizer plinks disapprovingly as a mysterious hand pink-spray-paints the phrase "Weintraub bites the big one" in varying sizes in the principals office. As the mystery tagger ...
  3 weeks ago

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