GONDOLA AND REST STOP
June 18, 2013
Gondola with dog rest stop featured in the foreground.
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THE BLOOMSDAY TOAST
June 16, 2013
Every year I insert one new line into my Bloomsday Toast: Here’s to – Nora the barnacle goose – Skin-the-Goat – the giggle fit of bronze by gold – the blind stripling piano tuner tap tap tapping along – the dog’s rag of wolf’s tongue redpanting from his jaws- Stephen deep in thought strolling on […]
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A FRAGMENT FROM SAMUEL BECKETT
June 8, 2013
…for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull… from Lucky’s speech in Waiting for Godot
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FIND MOM
June 3, 2013
Below is a photo of the famous film director Jean Renoir. Below the famous film director is a photo of a famous painting by the famous film director’s famous father, Auguste Renoir. The famous film director’s mother is one of the young ladies in the famous painting. Is she: a) leaning on the railing? b) […]
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A SENTENCE BY DAPHNE DUMAURIER
June 1, 2013
It was three months after she died that he first noticed the apple tree. Thus begineth The Apple Tree, one of the most menacingly creepy short stories ever written.
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A SENTENCE BY, YOU GUESSED IT, JAMES JOYCE
May 25, 2013
Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun. Genius, yes. To be read while dining, no.
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ONE THING HISTORICAL
May 20, 2013
Well, see them boulders scattered about yon. Was a time when the Washoe people come up to summer at the lake and their women folk pounded pine nuts on ’em. As purty a little stream as you’ll ever see flows down along by that stand o’ trees afore it gives itself up to jine forces […]
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A SENTENCE BY SEAMUS HEANEY
May 18, 2013
Meanwhile, the sword began to wilt into gory icicles, to slather and thaw. I hate it when my sword does that.
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L. FRANK BAUM’S MOTHER-IN-LAW
May 15, 2013
Today is the anniversary of L’s birth. Happy birthday, L. Not a lot of folks nowadays know that your mother-in-law, Matilda Gage, was one of the 3 pillars of the 19th century feminist movement along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. As you probably remember, your wife’s name was Maud. Maud and Matilda, […]
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A SENTENCE BY WILLIAM BLAKE
May 11, 2013
Come live & be merry and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of Ha, Ha, He.
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