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Lexicon Avenue: July 2012
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CAUTION: Words at Play. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Just banning "Trees" would save a million trees. Kay Ryan was named poet laureate of the United States. "I might take it upon myself," she said, "to prevent all bad poetry from being published.". She's a poet,. And boy, does she know it. Just because she's the Laureate,. She feels entitled to excoriate. The poetasters among us? As if we were fungus,. To be scraped away. But how can say. What is superior in verse. Without preserving what's worse.
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The Misforgotten (A Novel): Just the fax
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The Misforgotten (A Novel). Thursday, May 16, 2013. The first fax service, between the cities of Paris and Lyon, France, a distance of over 200 miles, was established on this date in the year—got a guess? How about 1865, eleven years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Better than that, the fax machine was actually patented in 1843, by Alexander Bain, a Scottish clockmaker. He called it a pantelegraph. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Misforgotten - purchase online for $1.99!
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The Misforgotten (A Novel): Moon of the Day
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The Misforgotten (A Novel). Saturday, July 20, 2013. Moon of the Day. Man landed on the moon on this day in 1969. The sun and the moon and the stars would have long ago disappeared.had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - Havelock Ellis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Misforgotten - purchase online for $1.99! View my complete profile. Favorite Related Books, Films and other works. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. Barfly (film, 1987). Chekhov, Anton (Collected Stories).
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The Misforgotten (A Novel): Russelling, part 2
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The Misforgotten (A Novel). Sunday, May 19, 2013. Russelling, part 2. Bertrand Russell’s 140. Birthday was yesterday. (See yesterday’s entry.). 8220;I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue,” Russell wrote. “I think all the great religions of the world—Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam—both untrue and harmful.”. In 1925, Russell published a small book called What I Believe. Fear is bad.” Russell said that while he didn’t welcome death, he had no t...Favorite Rela...
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The Misforgotten (A Novel): He'll float among the stars forever
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The Misforgotten (A Novel). Tuesday, July 2, 2013. He'll float among the stars forever. A police copter followed Walters until he flew into some power lines, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for a half-hour. He then crashed into a driveway. Walters broke the world altitude record for clustered balloon flight, but it wasn't official because it was unlicensed. And the FAA fined him $1,500. He did make appearances on the Tonight Show and Letterman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Plato (c. 428...
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Farewells: If they'd known she was dying they'd have baked her a cake
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Last words, last thoughts, last things. Friday, May 2, 2014. If they'd known she was dying they'd have baked her a cake. Lady Nancy Astor died on this day in 1964. She was the first woman to serve as a member of the British Parliament, as a member of the House of Commons. Her last words, when she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside:. Am I dying or is this my birthday. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click book for details. Click book for details.
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Farewells: Dying for an answer
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Last words, last thoughts, last things. Saturday, April 12, 2014. Dying for an answer. An article in the “New Yorker” magazine last week is entitled “Final Forms:. What death certificates can tell us, and what they can’t.” What our death certificate can tell someone, unequivocally, is that we are, indeed, dead (not always a precondition for burial, in times gone by). What it cannot tell, with any finality, is why we die. 8221; The comparison is an apt one: the official book on causes of mortality is as d...
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Lexicon Avenue: September 2012
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CAUTION: Words at Play. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Rail away, Twain. Today is the birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, the popular American frontier novelist of the early 19th century. His most famous book is. The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper’s art has some defects," Twain wrote. "In one place in ‘Deerslayer,’ and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record. Twain gave Cooper absolutely no "clemensy":.
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Lexicon Avenue: May 2012
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CAUTION: Words at Play. Saturday, May 26, 2012. On this day in 1897, the first copies of Bram Stoker's novel. Went on sale in London bookstalls. Stoker coined the noun. Which he in fact considered as a title for his story. The word had appeared before that in the Oxford English Dictionary, as an adjective. Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary. To be a noun. It gives legitimacy to the extremely dumb word. To cease to have being." Most other dictionaries list. Other amusing "un-" verbs in the. A metaphor ...
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The Cynic's Almanac: "Crass Materialism" wouldn't have the same ring
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Crass Materialism" wouldn't have the same ring. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day in 1886. You have put up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call 'Liberty'." - George Bernard Shaw. Posted by Paul Erland. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. TV or Not TV. Guide to Academic Depts. Please don't have a nice day. King (M.L.). Wells (H. G.). White (E. B.).
