Monthly Archives: April 2008

REALITY: April 30th, 2002

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Susan

The expected phone call comes unexpectedly, in the middle of working with a new customer named Sally.  The phone rings and I tell her that I’m very sorry but I have to leave.  My mother’s name is Sally, I tell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: video

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Susan

Too danged cute not to share (put on sound):The duck and the dog.wmv Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Starting Point of Harvest

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Susan

As bottling time of some of last year’s harvest wine begins, I see the beginnings of the new year’s harvest.  This is the quince bush that can produce jelly or wine.

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REALITY?: Rainy Day Discoveries

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Susan

A day for reading, writing, paying monthly bills.  But this comes out of the blue: We have 56 chairs in this household. I may well be one of the few who rented a tent for a baby shower but didn’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Touchpad Tricks

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

Well, since learning the touchpad versus the mouse on the Mac, I’ve found that the same thing happens when I get the itch and visit amazon.com and look over my wish list.  I tap rather than click, but the result … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Peter, Paul, and Mary

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

I think I’ve several posts over the year just like this one.  Peter, Paul and Mary on PBS.  Of course I watch until they get to the inevitable point: Puff the Magic Dragon.  Someday I’ll learn to flip the channel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Getting in Touch

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

In this case, with my dark side.  Oh c’mon; we all have it.  Even Jim has shown a bit of his in Vinny the Vulture’s rending of the freshly dead deer. Brought up on old traditional nasties such as Red … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Purpose?

Posted on April 26, 2008 by susan

This is a book, most of all, about reading I believe; and for the writer, a book about how a book is read should be of utmost value.  Know thine enemy.  Know your audience. Back in reader mode of Chapter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Well, neat!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

I don’t mind the heavy Google traffic here that leads to the literary reviews I’ve done; the short story The Swimmer had nearly single-handedly built Spinning up to what it is today. But it’s especially nice when a teacher links … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Layers

Posted on April 26, 2008 by susan

I’d noticed this before but there’s an instance here that illustrates how Calvino touches on so many areas within one fell swoop of his pen: Every moment you discover there is a new character, you don’t know how many people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – 2nd Person POV

Posted on April 26, 2008 by susan

Chapter 2 (!) brings us back into the reading mode of the book, that is, the narrator addressing us as ‘you’ and telling us how to go about returning Calvino’s book because it appears to be a printer’s error in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Why I Love My Man

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

Similar middle-class backgrounds and age group may sustain us through a merging into marriage of two Scorpios when one is in the ‘up’ mode, the other ‘down’.  But eighteen years of wedlock also emphasize the differences and luckily we may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Uh, why?

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Susan

Nice post today at Charles Deemer’s The Writing Life that touches on the desire to write and the desire to make a living at it, and what may happen along the way.  Charles has prepared a hyperdrama that will be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – The Fourth Wall?

Posted on April 25, 2008 by susan

I know what the term means in the reality/fiction barrier between narrative and reader, and when it is breached to bring the reader into the story.  This Calvino does to a degree, not by inviting the reader completely into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Mind Games

Posted on April 25, 2008 by susan

Never has an author or a book–at least any that I have read–involved my full attention quite so much not out of difficulty but rather out of an intimacy Calvino forms with the reader who is willing to accept his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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