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self titled: November 2006

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Thursday, November 02, 2006. Kay Smith "Again with Music". Now that the rain is spent,. Trees and the purple-headed timothy and the tall grasses. Are all netted over with seed pearls. Far as the eye can reach the sea is pale as a pearl,. The air a pool of stillness,. And so still the wild roses their petals make porcelain faces. From leaf to leaf a raindrop slips,. And sprawling over the living grass and the roses,. A dead apple tree with beauty in its bare bones,. And is almost alive again with music.

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self titled: September 2006

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Saturday, September 30, 2006. Richard Lemm "My Class Draws a Blank on Robbie Burns". If we forget where we come from. We move half blind through what we are. I ask my mother and uncle, born Alexanders:. What part of Scotland, what clan? Uncle Curt laughs, "We're Americans.". Not that I want a tartan, or my ancestors'. Motto, other than that I first learned,. Gimme liberty or gimme death. And Levi's. Are my heritage, Disney's Crockett, John Wayne,. But blue jeans came from sail cloths, Genoese,. Miniserie...

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self titled: Sue Sinclair "Orpheus Meets Eurydice in the Underworld"

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Thursday, August 24, 2006. Sue Sinclair "Orpheus Meets Eurydice in the Underworld". Still limping, she has come. She waits at the foot of the hill, doesn't dare go any further, remembers how it once vanished under her feet. She has spent the time thinking about her wedding day, tracing the mark on her ankle where the serpent bit. It hasn't healed yet; perhaps it won't until he comes back. She has never desired his death, but wished for it as one wishes for rain. Sometimes when they are walking she teases...

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self titled: Tammy Armstrong "Static"

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006. My mother cannot talk on the telephone. During electrical storms;. She's terrified the living scars of night. Might come through her finger-smudged receiver,. Slice foolishly into her heart. While she gives me a no-fail recipe for chowder. I'm still moving out West,. The line snaps and hisses. Just make it through the winter,. We'll go to the beach in June. My mother - moving. From the Silurian fields of the East Coast. Into the pink-eyed shiver of the West. Oº ‘ t ãgï ‘ ºO.

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self titled: Richard Lemm "My Class Draws a Blank on Robbie Burns"

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Saturday, September 30, 2006. Richard Lemm "My Class Draws a Blank on Robbie Burns". If we forget where we come from. We move half blind through what we are. I ask my mother and uncle, born Alexanders:. What part of Scotland, what clan? Uncle Curt laughs, "We're Americans.". Not that I want a tartan, or my ancestors'. Motto, other than that I first learned,. Gimme liberty or gimme death. And Levi's. Are my heritage, Disney's Crockett, John Wayne,. But blue jeans came from sail cloths, Genoese,. Miniserie...

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The Fergusonia File: Joanna Baillie's The Tryal (1798)

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Friday, November 24, 2006. Joanna Baillie's The Tryal (1798). Appearing in the same red-letter year as Coleridge and Wordsworth's. Joanna Baillie's decidedly less influential collection of plays,. Plays on the Passions. Was nonetheless popular in its day. Is one of three plays in the volume, and it is the only comedy. Miss Eston, Mr. Royston and Sir Loftus are good examples of this. Even if the stage directions in one scene were somehow lost, we would still know who was talking. As for your old wig indee...

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The Fergusonia File: Editing Trotter's Biographical Entry

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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Editing Trotter's Biographical Entry. The extant Wikipedia article for Catharine Trotter Cockburn. In terms of sensitive/opinionated material that might contravene the NPOV. Love at a Loss. My work on the entry, then, was hardly impeded by the NPOV policy. I wouldn’t have written any differently otherwise. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 7:02 AM. A Blog to be Let. Literature, musings, and tabby cats. Never mind the bollocks. Riddles: Not Simple Entertainment.

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The Fergusonia File: A Wife to Be Lett

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Thursday, November 02, 2006. A Wife to Be Lett. Eliza Haywood’s 1724 comedy,. A Wife to be Lett. The fact that Amadea is in drag makes the situation more complicated. Would Susanna have heeded the warnings if the censurer appeared in her true gender? Does the fact that no male is actually present suggest that there is room for exclusive female community even within patriarchy? The tyranny of husbands is clearly devalued in the play, but where are we left at the end? Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 6:55 AM.

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The Fergusonia File: November 2006

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Frances Burney, The Witlings (1778-80). 1778-1780) opens in a milliner's shop (see photo), a fact which is notable in itself. The other plays we've looked at generally open in someone's dressing or drawing room, which is a cue to the upper or middle class milieu of the ensuing drama. I thought that opening. The play, like others we've seen, centres on a young woman who is independently wealthy (see Cavendish's. The Convent of Pleasure. That said, the characterization is good...