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About Me
Engineer by profession; literature afficiando in my spare time.
Interests
Reading, writing, gardening, photography, exercise, learning.
Favorite Music
All music really. Classical, jazz, blues, rock. Love the Rolling Stones in rock.
Favorite Books
My favorites: Dante's Divine Comedy, William Faulkner's Light In August, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, DH Lawrence's The Rainbow, Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Love William Butler Yeats, TS Eliot, and Wallace Stevens in poetry. Well, I do have a master's degree in English literature. ;)
Favorite Quotes
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
~William Faulkner
from "Sailing to Byzantium"
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
~William Butler Yeats,
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Light the first light of evening
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:
Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.
Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.
Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
~Wallace Stevens
from "Ash Wednesday,"
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety
On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained
In the hollow round of my skull. And God said
Shall these bones live? shall these
Bones live? And that which had been contained
In the bones (which were already dry) said chirping:
Because of the goodness of this Lady
And because of her loveliness, and because
She honours the Virgin in meditation,
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled
Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love
To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
It is this which recovers
My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions
Which the leopards reject. The Lady is withdrawn
In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown.
Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness.
There is no life in them. As I am forgotten
And would be forgotten, so I would forget
Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. And God said
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping
With the burden of the grasshopper, saying
Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
~T.S. Eliot
~William Faulkner
from "Sailing to Byzantium"
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
~William Butler Yeats,
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Light the first light of evening
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:
Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.
Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.
Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
~Wallace Stevens
from "Ash Wednesday,"
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety
On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained
In the hollow round of my skull. And God said
Shall these bones live? shall these
Bones live? And that which had been contained
In the bones (which were already dry) said chirping:
Because of the goodness of this Lady
And because of her loveliness, and because
She honours the Virgin in meditation,
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled
Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love
To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
It is this which recovers
My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions
Which the leopards reject. The Lady is withdrawn
In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown.
Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness.
There is no life in them. As I am forgotten
And would be forgotten, so I would forget
Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. And God said
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping
With the burden of the grasshopper, saying
Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
~T.S. Eliot
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rightside
10 hours ago

Oh Marlow, none of us ever do parenting "always" right. Trying is all we can do,
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Gracie ~Gun Totin' Gracie~
3 days ago


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Phyl *In God i Trust*
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Pearlie Momi♥Patriot Warrior♥
6 days ago

Hello: Sorry I am late. Thanks for the post. I visit my hubby every day. He had a stroke and is in Rehab doing great . Slowly but he is making progress..Hope all is well with you and your family..

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princess
2013/06/03 21:52:30

Hope you have a great week my friend......

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betz
2013/05/31 09:37:15

Good morning Marlow and Matthew. Rise and shine. :)
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Barefoot Peace and Love∞ijm...
2013/05/27 13:18:14


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ADIDAS
2013/05/27 08:24:37


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Leasheryn/Lady Willpower
2013/05/27 01:28:16

I never forget, my friend. My sweetheart is in Kuwait. It is in my mind every day.

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belle
2013/05/27 00:16:53


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jessiesgirl4463
2013/05/26 22:21:29

Thank you M! Hope you and yours have a great day too!! 
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nerak611
2013/05/26 19:05:27
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nerak611
2013/05/26 17:37:46
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Have a Peaceful and Sunny Memorial Day in Remembrance of all who fought for our country.

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Sissy
2013/05/26 13:19:11

May you and your family have a wonderful Holiday as well. As we go to parades, crank up our grills, bring flowers to graves of loved ones, all the while remembering with honor, those who made it possible and died under our flag doing so.

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Diamond Girl
2013/05/26 12:51:57


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2013/05/26 04:03:48


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princess
2013/05/26 01:47:10

Wishing you a great MEMORIAL DAY holiday my friend.........

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Kara ~~~ American Patriot
2013/05/25 14:23:50

Have an awesome Memorial weekend. :)

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Amy ...AKA Dudess
2013/05/24 15:33:50


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View all 5,076 comments »Love the story, made me laugh!
hugs to you all
Would have left a comment on your site but it wouldn't let me.
Happy Memorial Day to you....be safe and God Bless you & yours.
All my love,
Adi