I want my words to be cold, icy clear, and hard as diamond, not melting all over the place like a pile of slops. I have been laden with responsibility, you see. Whatever I say must love truth – not just tolerate or include or concede truth, but reach at it like a drowning man…
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To M.L., his boots stretched on the fireplace
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” – F. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby [To M.L., his boots stretched on the fireplace] From the shadows we watch his face in the blue half-light of the fire. Hear the draft beneath the door and the fire’s dying…
Good Books List 2016
Okay: – What Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard Feynman – The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot – The Pre-Raphaelite Poets with Intro by Harold Bloom – Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy Good: – The Lady of Shallott by Tennyson – With my Trousers…
Summertime Rhapsody
Dear readership, I recently had the opportunity to interview a fantastic person named Ben. He’s my brother; wise for his age. You might want to read what he has to say about the incoming season. Amelia: What does summertime mean to you? Ben: It means freedom. Amelia: Freedom from what? Ben: Freedom from school, and…