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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Reading My World
For one odd moment in the afternoon, I saw my nose and suddenly I felt confined within my head, living somewhere behind my eyes, all of me. Eyes not windows to the soul alone, but now portals from which I … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Reading & Writing
Hard night’s sleep again last night, and so I rise me up and wander through the dark. Feed my body from the refrigerator, feed my soul and mind in books. But did I? Just now, as I write, I question … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Different Path
I have had Michael Arnzen’s “100 Jolts” since it first came out, and he has since published a new novel called “Play Dead.” I think that for the short story category of my reading journey, I shall put this next … Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
"Lists" by Mika Tanner is a story about a couple undergoing a divorce, and the wife’s visit back to their apartment to go through their material possessions to equitably dispose of them. It is very well written, first person pov … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
What is good about reading let’s say, short story collections continuously for example, is that the reading mind adjusts to a certain set of points that are consistently sought, noted as present or lacking. New things come up, as in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthy
Thanks to Slushpile for the heads up on Cormac McCarthy’s latest, Country for Old Men, due out tomorrow. He includes an excerpt and link to Jeffrey Lent’s review in the Washington Post (critique MY McCarthy? Why he’s right up there … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
"Now it was a Pythagorean teaching that similars are comprehended by similars: so that, in a word, the rational soul could by no means comprehend all things unless it were also composed of all of them…" "But we ought not … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Learning the Language
I thought I understood Squash. I thought my Butternut was fairly good. This morning though, I found a twist in the plot that quite surprised me. A flower that will develop into a squash has budded and bloomed before the … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Gardening
Despite the slight drizzle this morning after a decent rain, I am out in the garden doing a bit of weeding. Of what I’ve already read on my computer travels this morning, something strikes me as I go down the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
Absolutely beautiful story is this issue by Lisa Graley, "Crossing with Sassafras." The story is in the first person pov, the narrator an old man repairing a fence because he sees the ghost of his goat, Sassafras flying freely about … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Didascalicon
What better place to establish a home base from which to venture out than The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor – A Medieval Guide to the Arts? I started this last year, but without all my faculties. I find … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmertrain #47
I have only started the stories in this issue, but they seem to be relationship-oriented and so the characters’ reactions to current events are what establishes the themes as well as the voice. While relying upon the past, The Exile … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Gold Standards
What makes something a classic? Or a best-seller? Two very different answers, I am sure. Quite possibly the only thing they have in common is that eventually, a classic becomes a best seller but it takes decades, sometimes centuries longer. … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: John Wayne
Cannot still his voice when thinking pilgrim. A traveler, "somebody who is making a journey of any kind" (Encarta). I am, I am. But I also feel a "religious traveler, somebody who goes on a journey to a holy place … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Reading
Ah, he has answered my call for further exploration into this business of reading, so I direct you to Steve Ersinghaus at The Great Lettuce Head with his series on his thoughts as a writer, reader, and instructor of literature. … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology