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Nascent Confessions: October 2008
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A public access portfolio of sorts for the poetry, prose, art, and developed thoughts of JM Rayner and those who influence him. Upon Reading Cormac McCarthy Again. I just finished Cormac McCarthy's first "western" novel, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. A Tennessean named Webster had been watching him and he asked the judge what he aimed to do with those notes and sketches and the judge smiled and said that it was his intention to expunge them from the memory of man. In this novel it i...
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Nascent Confessions: June 2008
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A public access portfolio of sorts for the poetry, prose, art, and developed thoughts of JM Rayner and those who influence him. Excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise". I feel a special connection with Fitzgerald. It's been a long time since I read The Great Gatsby. When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death:. Thru Time I'll save my love! Q - Are you corrupt? A - I t...
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Nascent Confessions: Excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise"
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A public access portfolio of sorts for the poetry, prose, art, and developed thoughts of JM Rayner and those who influence him. Excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise". I feel a special connection with Fitzgerald. It's been a long time since I read The Great Gatsby. When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death:. Thru Time I'll save my love! Q - Are you corrupt? A - I t...
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia: Extension
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia. The travels, triumphs, and travails of Joshua Rayner in Orvieto, Italy. Food is kind of a major thing, as I'm sure you can imagine. Tomatoes taste like water, and everything has way too many ingredients. I looked at the ingredients list on a box of purchased Atlanta Bread Co. sweet rolls, and it's absurdly long.because of all the preserving chemicals. And why does color need to be added? Why does guacomole need to be processed and in a plastic bag? I mean, what will I wear?
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Nascent Confessions: February 2007
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A public access portfolio of sorts for the poetry, prose, art, and developed thoughts of JM Rayner and those who influence him. Poem by Roger Williams. 1 The Distant God. Remedial, you are. The embodiment of what was never laid to rest,. The body that was never found. You went to pieces. The dignified indignities name names). It seems you were always. Where you were wanted. But never where you belonged,. And you are never who you would have been. But who we would have you be. All we have to live down.
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia: Notes From An Aeroplane
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia. The travels, triumphs, and travails of Joshua Rayner in Orvieto, Italy. Notes From An Aeroplane. I’m so glad they took the pains to tell us on our in-flight map screen that we flew right over Kuujjuick! Was played at all. But good thing there were seven other options for those without the attention span for that (and this was just in economy seating! I’ve used this time to listen to the Arvo Part and Philip Glass recordings Matt gave me. Perfect for introspection. San Paolo i...
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia: ave maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia. The travels, triumphs, and travails of Joshua Rayner in Orvieto, Italy. Ave maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum. Tonight we celebrate Bruce Herman's paintings of Mary, which have been permanently installed here in Monastero di San Paolo. I've been really busy with singing rehearsals, helping to rig lighting, etc. Tonight it comes to an end with one spectacular show. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I create to give glory to the Creator. View my complete profile. San Paolo i...
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia: June 2009
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La Ricerca - Viaggio Italia. The travels, triumphs, and travails of Joshua Rayner in Orvieto, Italy. Thoughts on Georgia from Tennessee. I am currently writing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where they like excess letters. For the last week my youngest brother, Jason, and I have been crisscrossing back and forth across Georgia, setting up curriculum material for a textbook bid that Classical Academic Press. The company at which my brother interns) is pitching to the Georgia public school system. Food is ki...
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Nascent Confessions: March 2007
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A public access portfolio of sorts for the poetry, prose, art, and developed thoughts of JM Rayner and those who influence him. On Nationalism, Allegiance, and the Artist's Place. Yes, and to be "a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.". Excerpts taken from pages 220 and 240 of James Joyce's. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I create to give glory to the Creator. View my complete profile.
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Nascent Confessions - Meditatii: Finished Book: "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin
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Nascent Confessions - Meditatii. A more informal online journal and account of the life of JM Rayner. Finished Book: "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin. Yesterday I finished the novel that has occupied the majority of my reading since a few days before Christmas: Winter's Tale. By Mark Helprin. I had read several of his stories before, namely The City in Winter. And The Veil of Snows. And the absolutely sublime The Polar Express. Here are some other memorable excerpts:. The doubt, his father might have said...
