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"Added 9/24/11.The GR description says:
"Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence."
Hmmm, sounds like an SF...more "
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"Added 6/14/13.I'm enjoying reading about the behavior of primates and how that behavior indicates that we, as well as primates, are born with an innate sense of caring about what happens to others. In other words, we naturally have empathy for one an...more "
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Joy H. said:
"Added 2/19/10.10/26/12
Today I finished watching the movie adaptation of We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates via a Netflix DVD.
"We Were the Mulvaneys" (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313769/
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/We-Were-...
NETFLIX DE...more "
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Added 6/17/13. I didn't read this book but I watched the film adaptation on 6/16/13 via Netflix streaming. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120532/?... http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The... "Woodsman Giles Winterborne (Rufus Sewell) is destined to marry h...more |
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"Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
There's a poem/song entitled "Under the Greenwood Tree" in Act II of Shakespeare's "As You Like It". http://kel...more " |
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Added 6/19/13. I did not read this book but in Jan. 2013 I watched the 2005 film adaptation: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465653/?... http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/700... "Adapted from Thomas Hardy's novel, this charming tale follows schoolteacher Fa...more |
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"Don't remind me. LOL The pressure is enormous. I'll never catch up! :)"
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Added 6/17/13. _Earthly Powers_ by Anthony Burgess (1980) FIRST LINE: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” This is one of the supreme show-off fi...more |
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Added 6/17/13. _I Capture the Castle_ by Dodie Smith(1948) FIRST LINE: “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.” A brilliant beginning to a much-loved English classic, which tells us almost all we need to know about the narrator Cassandra Mortmain. Qu...more |
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais
― Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais
“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”
― Thomas Wolfe
― Thomas Wolfe
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― A.A. Milne
― A.A. Milne
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
― Bernard M. Baruch
POEM (light verse): "OLD and INDISPOSED" (Poetry)
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updated Feb 21, 2013 10:56am
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light verse
The Referendum (Poetry)
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updated May 04, 2011 08:21am
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(a letter to the editor, in verse)
VERSIFYING (in defense of)(very short) (Poetry)
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updated May 04, 2011 07:53am
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A very short verse about versifying (writing light poetry)
Mom on the Net (poem) (Select)
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updated Apr 28, 2011 04:47am
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Poem about surfing the Internet
A Mate's Fate (Poetry)
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updated Mar 21, 2011 07:35am
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by Joy Huott (This poem appeared in the Peekskill Power Squadron Newsletter (NY) sometime in the 1970's.)
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