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I’m afraid this night sleep alludes me (I’m typing this at night, will post later). Too many things crawling around inside my brain. Tomorrow is my longest teaching day, and I have a lot going on. I’ve also been summarizing a book on Jewish-American literature into a power point presentation for my American literature class ( Read more... ) -
“Ah, are you digging on my grave?”
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Quote from “What is Literature?” by Sartre
“One cannot write without a public and without a myth - without a certain public which historical circumstances have made, without a certain myth of literature which depends to a very great extent upon the demand of the public. In a word, the author is in a situation, like all other men. But his writings, like every human project, simultaneously ( Read more... ) -
The Key of Z
I don’t understand you,
I don’t understand me,
I don’t understand why,
You are the key of Z.
Your lyrics are poetry
You’re strumming a breeze
That carries me
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Fame is Food that Dead Men Eat
By Austin Dobson ( Read more... ) -
“A Child” by Richard Watson Gilder
Her voice was like the song of birds;
Her eyes were like the stars;
Her little waving hands were like
Birds’ wings that beat the bars.
And when those waving hands were still,
Her soul had fled away,
The music faded from the air
The color from the day. -
“Autumn Treasure” by Richard Le Gallienne
Who will gather with me the fallen year ( Read more... ) -
I tell myself a little lie
I tell myself a little lie
Each time I look at my credit card.
I tell myself a little lie
Every time I mail out a novel.
I tell myself a little lie
When I write to a woman of love.
I tell myself a little lie
When I say I don't love her anymore.
I tell myself a little lie
Every day of my little life. -
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Simple cure to spending too much time on the Internet: I don’t bring a power cord when I go to the café ( Read more... ) -
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This morning I read “A Case of Perspective,” by Lane Robins and rather enjoyed how she took advantage of ‘perspective’ having both visual and psychological meanings. I also read her “A Soul Like Salt,” one of her Deacon Dupre stories, which is a dark fantasy written in a surreal noir style that demands and deserves a slow reading, the sort that ( Read more... )