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LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Are you falling for this?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by susan

Now I can accept life on Mars and apocalypse on Earth in fiction. I can see The Invisible Man and believe that kryptonite can kill Superman. It’s getting hard however to swallow Ishiguro’s Mr. Ryder’s reaction to his circumstances in … Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Why my carefully nurtured hopes are fading

Posted on March 7, 2009 by susan

Obama vows to break cycle of job losses Job losses could get even worse Analysts: Job losses could drown stimulus Stark’s hottest job: Janitor Does no one notice that the major job loss is in manufacturing, production, and white collar … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Expenses of a Death Sentence

Posted on March 7, 2009 by susan

According to this AP article by Deborah Hastings, “In hard times, executions become question of cost” the expense involved–mainly in judicial costs–to apply the death penalty overwhelms the expenses of a life sentence. I applaud those states who will propose … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Not only “America’s Shame”

Posted on March 7, 2009 by susan

While I agree with the concept of the Chronicle’s point that universities should include a more globally caring image in areas of what is taught in “anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethics and sociology,” it does make one look deeper into … Continue reading →

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STORIES: All start from an opening line

Posted on March 6, 2009 by susan

“Maude Nichols found her husband’s gun, loaded it and shot it directly into her left ear because she couldn’t find the remote for the TV. “

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REALITY?: Well, that’s what it’s called anyway

Posted on March 5, 2009 by susan

On the proposal for paying healthcare costs by either taxing the rich, or by making poor Joe Schmoe who pays a portion of his insurance premium and changing that to a non-deductible income for taxes (though we’ve personally been able … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Poetry

Posted on March 5, 2009 by susan

No wonder not even friends will comment on my posted poetry; I’m just not with the program of contemporary tastes: Poem for Randy Prunty by James Saunders. The next one, Sports, Part I, by Ken Goldsmith started while I’m writing … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Unconsoled– Theme

Posted on March 4, 2009 by susan

As the narrator, Mr. Ryder, settles into his surroundings at the hotel, we see a recurring theme of a near adulation from the hotel employees. Yet each finds a way to spend enough time with him in order to seek … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Banner

Posted on March 4, 2009 by susan

Well the css studying I’ve been doing has paid off in that I was confident about moving ‘.blog-title’ out from the list of headlines and give it its own font of Desdemona, with alternates of Colonna MT and finally Georgia … Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: I Really Must…

Posted on March 3, 2009 by susan

…design a new banner here. What was I thinking?

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LITERATURE: The Unconsoled – Voice and Pace

Posted on March 3, 2009 by susan

Old-fashioned and slow. But that’s harsh, since the writing style is indeed wonderfully proper prose and as the story opens with a first person narrator, a concert pianist named Mr. Ryder, arriving at a hotel and being somewhat taken aback … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Dawn

Posted on March 3, 2009 by susan

The morning’s dark and quiet, lit up only by the whiteness of the snow. I make my way back to my own home, down the driveway, down the road, up to my own doorsill. The kitchen’s empty, smells of coffee … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: An Interesting Proposal

Posted on March 1, 2009 by susan

From Steve Sailer’s perspective on a Louis Soares article: But, here’s a reform for making some degree of “college attainment” more feasible, one that I’ve never seen suggested before: Why shouldn’t four year colleges give out two year Associates of … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Sorta, kinda, well…slow.

Posted on February 28, 2009 by susan

Not because of the content, but because I’ve been holed up with a couple of books on HTML and CSS and (over at Hypercompendia) I’ve been working on getting some of my hypertext stuff online. But of course it can’t … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Foggy Pink Morning

Posted on February 27, 2009 by susan
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