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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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Christ-Inanity: April 2012
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Notes from a castaway in a Christian nation. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. God: That is the question. A review of The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life. By Dr Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. Sigmund Freud never met C. S. Lewis, but the author of this book imagines a debate between the two on the subject of God (and some corollary topics). He also teaches a course at Harvard contrasting the two men’s “worldviews.”. To be continued…). Lewis (C. S.). It's a time...
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Christ-Inanity: Will save your soul for food
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Notes from a castaway in a Christian nation. Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Will save your soul for food. A story in the NY Times deals with another hard-hit group of victims of the recession: preachers. The number of available pastoring jobs has not kept pace with the numbers of individuals answering the “call” to set themselves up as custodians of souls. Start on any street corner. “Wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there am I.” (Jesus again.) Voila! Maybe you think I’m being facetious. B...View my...
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Christ-Inanity: December 2012
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Notes from a castaway in a Christian nation. Tuesday, December 4, 2012. Author William Paul Young was in town last week to sign copies of his new book. Young is the man responsible for The Shack. The runaway bestseller about a man who spends a weekend in the woods with the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Before Young hit it big, he cleaned toilets for a living, he told the local press. Always interesting, where writers get their inspiration. The cover of my paperback copy of The Shack. It all could b...
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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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Animalarkey: The Buzzard
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Sunday, January 29, 2012. The buzzard is seldom abashed. To dine on what's flattened or smashed;. Highway flotsam and jetsam. Is really what gets him;. He'll eat skunk, if it's properly mashed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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Animalarkey: Is there a dining car?
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Monday, February 21, 2011. Is there a dining car? The ticket man wished to know. If she'd be checking. The baggage she was pecking. Whose name was Marian),. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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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 ...
