Bill Cheng's Blog, page 23
August 23, 2014
annmarcaida:
Little fly,Thy summer’s playMy thoughtless handHas brushed away.
Am not IA fly like...
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die?
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Author: William Blake
Image: Kazuka Akimoto
bellebissett:
The rafters in Pablo Neruda’s studio,...
The rafters in Pablo Neruda’s studio, photographed by Milton Rogovin. This photo appears in Rogovin’s book, Windows That Open Inward (Rogovin, M., Maloney, D., Bly, R. and Neruda, P. 1985. Windows that open inward. Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press).
THE NAMES by Pablo Neruda
I didn’t write them on the roofbeams because they
were famous, but because they were companions
Rojas Giménez, the nomad, nocturnal, pierced with
the grief of farewells, dead with joy pigeon breeder, madman
of the shadows
Joaquín Cifruntes, whose verses rolled like stones in
the river.
Fredrico, who made me laugh like no on else could
and who put us all in mourning for a century.
Paul Eluard, whose forget-me-not color eyes are as sky
blue as always and retain their blue strength under the earth.
Miguel Hernándes, whistling to me like a nightingale
from the trees on Princesa Street until they caged my
nightingale.
Nazim, noisy bard, brave gentleman, friend.
Why did they leave so soon? Their names will not slip
down from the rafters. Each one of them was a victory.
Together they were the sum of my light. Now, a small
anthology of my sorrow.
More: http://www.miltonrogovin.com/neruda.html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Rogovin
http://www.miltonrogovin.com/education/FullTeachersGuide.pdf
August 22, 2014
popchartlab:
Showcased today on NPR, our sentence diagram...
Showcased today on NPR, our sentence diagram charts (one covering lines from notable novels, the other action movie quotes) make a perfect back-to-school gift for English teachers—or book buffs, movie nerds or language lovers.
Well firstly, I’ve been playing Minecraft for quite a...
Well firstly, I’ve been playing Minecraft for quite a while now, and I just now noticed I was subconsciously thinking this entire process out. You see, I’m a Muslim, and whenever I’ve played games, I’ve always for some reason followed the rules of Islam as best I could. This might be because I’m just wired to do so, or maybe it’s because I want to see if it would somehow help me in the game, showing how good Islamic laws really are. As an example, when playing fallout 3, I never picked up pork and beans, nor did I drink alcohol or do drugs. Contrast that with my older brother, who walked around jacked up on mentats and whiskey…
So of course, a game like Minecraft gets really complex.
Awesome! Soloman212 applies the edicts of Islam in Minecraft.
tragedyseries:
I call them, alternately, ‘woof marks’ or ‘book...
I call them, alternately, ‘woof marks’ or ‘book m’barks’ but whatever you call them, print and utilize them to note meaningful sections of your favorite medical texts and whaling narratives.
August 21, 2014
The ultimate consequence of our recent bed bug outbreak?
The ultimate consequence of our recent bed bug outbreak?
August 18, 2014
theparisreview:
“When words finally came to me, I began to...
“When words finally came to me, I began to write on top of what I had drawn.” Illustration by Günter Grass for his novel Show Your Tongue.
August 17, 2014
At long last, Vanessa Manko’s The Invention of Exile is on...
At long last, Vanessa Manko’s The Invention of Exile is on the shelves! Can’t wait to hear her read at powerhousearena on August 25th!
