Ned Hayes's Blog, page 90
August 8, 2014
jtotheizzoe:
compoundchem:
Today, a look at the contributing...
Today, a look at the contributing compounds to ‘old book smell’, and the origins of the less well researched ‘new book smell’: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-hV
Books don’t get old. They get better.
August 7, 2014
SINFUL FOLK serialized this month — you can get PART 6 for...
SINFUL FOLK serialized this month — you can get PART 6 for FREE all this week on Amazon.
Book quote:
"Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot coal...
Book quote:
"Stars steam away as a pale sun rises, hot coal dropped in a watery sky. Light seeps across the forest as the reedy shrieks of wood fowl echo in the trees. The path from our village to the King’s Highway is no road at all. To the east, that faint track leads up through the forest until it reaches, finally, the open country and paths that lead to other places. Hob is taking us beyond the bounds of the known world.”
August 6, 2014
"To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest..."
- ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psych-quotes)
August 5, 2014
Book quote:
“Spring grew into summer, and the rhythm of my life...
Book quote:
“Spring grew into summer, and the rhythm of my life now included Nell. I learned that her secret lavender and mint beds were deep in the woods, out by the chuckling stream that disappeared underground. She gathered plants she needed every day, and she was as a child who gathers flowers in May.”
August 4, 2014
SINFUL FOLK serialized this month — you can get PART IV...
SINFUL FOLK serialized this month — you can get PART IV and V for FREE all this week on Amazon.
August 3, 2014
"At this point my opinion is that a poet should carry death’s imminence with him at all times, the..."
- Franz Wright, closing lines to “History,” from Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)
