Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 23
November 15, 2024
ON BEING A SKELETON
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November 14, 2024
Things To Do
November 13, 2024
DUNE — SERIES OF NOVELS BY FRANK HERBERT
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November 12, 2024
WOULD YOU TRUST THIS MAN TO BE THE GOVERNOR OF YOUR STATE?
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November 10, 2024
WHAT BOBA CHARGED JABBA FOR SOLO
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November 8, 2024
FLYING
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Flying is done more easily and freely OUTSIDE of your body!!! 
Nice Little Penguins
Flying
“Here I am, I’m on my own
for the first time really on my own
So will I make it will it work alright
can I make it through the night
And I go
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I am flying
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, in open space
Look at me, I’m riding high
I’m the airborne master of the sky
And everything beneath me seems to fade
without a trace, without a shape
And I go
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I am flying
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, in open space
And eveything beneath me seems to fade
without a trace, without a shape
And I go
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I am flying
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, in open space
And I go
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I am flying
ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, in open space”
November 7, 2024
THE LONELY GHOST COULD BE YOU
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BE THOUGHTFUL ON ALL HALLOWS EVEby Lawrence R. SpencerAn apparition in the night!
A lonely ghost floats on the stairs
she shines in luminescent light
disembodied, though she's still here.
Not living in the flesh on Earth
she may be free to wait, or roam.
Yet, she seldom feels much mirth
because she's mostly left alone.
Most people will not see her there,
though she's a Spirit, will feelings tender,
they don't perceive her in the air:
they don't know how, or can't remember.
Yet, people are afraid of ghosts!
We've been told we must avoid
the friends we've lost, yet loved the most
who linger in the spatial void.
Beware! Don't run and hide in fear!
Look all about! They're still around!
Beloved old friends may still be near...
if you listen, they'll make a sound.
Be thoughtful on All Hallows Eve:
befriend a Spirit on the stairs.
Someday you and I may be
a lonely ghost who needs some care.
November 5, 2024
November 4, 2024
MURDER
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“It occurred to me at some point this fall that I had written similar deaths in at least two of my books, and popular fiction is heaped with other examples of the same thing. Have you set up a moral dilemma you don’t know how to solve? Is the protagonist sexually attracted to a woman who is much too young
for him, shall we say? Need a quick fix? Easiest thing in the world. ‘When the story starts going sour, bring on the man with the gun.’ Raymond Chandler said that, or something like it — close enough for government work, kemo sabe.
Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is “let me do what I want” taken to its final extreme. I believe that even make-believe murders should be taken seriously; maybe that’s another idea I got last summer. Perhaps I got it while Mattie was struggling in my arms, gushing blood from her smashed head and dying blind, still crying out for her daughter as she left ”
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones

If you have not yet read the series of DUNE novels by Frank Herbert I recommend them as some of the best science fiction stories ever written. Here is a link to the Frank Herbert website —

