Rigel was kind enough to send me...
The Bughouse by Daniel Swift.
A biography of Ezra Pound focusing on the poets Incarceration in a psychiatric hospital for over a decade after the Second World War.
It has been a fascinating read to this point.
Thank you Rigel!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-ezr ... 1511556851
What are you reading in general?
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The Book of Lost Friends. Historical fiction.
Recently read: The Arawn Cycle (a re-read) and the Galand Cycle...a long series that keeps getting more interesting.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (yay! A James Joyce book I could finish!)
Also started A Woman of No Importance, a biography of a one-legged American female spy during WW2. Fascinating!
Recently read: The Arawn Cycle (a re-read) and the Galand Cycle...a long series that keeps getting more interesting.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (yay! A James Joyce book I could finish!)
Also started A Woman of No Importance, a biography of a one-legged American female spy during WW2. Fascinating!
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ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
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I'm back into fantasy again after a few years break. I'm a couple of books into Donaldson's last Chronicles and four books into the best books I've read in years, the Sword of Shadows series by J V Jones. The Conan Chronicles have also been in there, but beyond fantasy I'm mainly into history. I've read a few histories of WW2 and Churchill biographies, but it's mainly been fantasy stuff. It suits my need to remove myself from the current events of the world (alongside gaming, which is pretty absorbing as well when you get into it).
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Hmmm........
Are you sure Av? I took it as "What are you reading in general?"
But nevertheless I take the point and prostrating my miserable self before the bench, plead for the mercy of the Court. But as the late great Frankie Howard would have said, "I always was a miserable pleader."
Are you sure Av? I took it as "What are you reading in general?"
But nevertheless I take the point and prostrating my miserable self before the bench, plead for the mercy of the Court. But as the late great Frankie Howard would have said, "I always was a miserable pleader."
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. Third time I've read it and as always I'm deeply moved by the courage and simple humanity shown by those few who were capable of thinking in a direction opposite to that which state propoganda was pushing them. We all know the tragic results of that awful time when madness became for a decade or so sanity, and the few sane individuals who saw it were labeled as mad. We all like to believe that we would have been Schindlers; history shows that in truth very few of us would have been capable of it.
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Can you point me in the direction of a good sample poem(s)?Cord Hurn wrote:As of last Sunday, having finished the Hughes book, I'm now reading a compilation by poet Joy Harjo, How We Became Human.
A dreadful vampire novel i found at work.
https://booktrib.com/2014/11/19/the-mot ... ht-series/
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