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Would You Physically Punish Your Kid?
I've given him a spank on the tush. It doesn't really hurt but it gets his attention. ...
On IRS, Ezra Klein is Still an Idiot, and so is the White House
That is complete bull shit. She took the 5th. What does that tell you.
On IRS, Ezra Klein is Still an Idiot, and so is the White House
Even a six year? Tell that to all the news media that have finally caught on.
Another murder charge for the death of an unborn baby!
So great that the poor murdered unborned are getting the recognition and justice they d...
Damage Control for Dummies By MATT PURPLE Six ways to ra...
Haha, I see this on Sodahead. Liberals have no answer. Obama has violated the thing t...
Do you tasted persimmons?
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Not only have i tasted persimmons, my mother has a persimmons tree in her back yard tha...
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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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Amy ...AKA Dudess
22 hours ago
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ITALIAN CLICKER
2013/05/16 05:52:23
HI MANNY,
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princess
2013/05/12 03:20:07
Hello Marlow. I've been away from SH for several weeks due to surgery. I hope you're doing well?? Please take care and have a good weekend.
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Sister Jean
2013/05/09 19:22:27
not a good day to send this after your recent comments on my post!
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Tommy Trend
2013/05/07 04:13:25
how's it going?
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Guess~GOD GOT IT~
2013/05/04 22:48:36
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Phyl *In God i Trust*
2013/05/04 00:27:34
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Apache
2013/05/02 09:31:09
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⚜Ellen⚜ ☼True American Patr...
2013/04/23 00:03:13
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Little Angel
2013/04/22 16:18:23
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nerak611
2013/04/17 07:14:39
You too friend!!!!! 
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Jack's Pearl
2013/04/16 18:53:25
Thank you Marlow! I'm glad you know the difference between rudeness and a conversation over a topic on here. LOL Hugs!
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Civic Minded
2013/04/16 04:31:56
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Hope your family is doing well.
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Phyl *In God i Trust*
2013/04/16 02:40:28
Very sad what happen today.. They are not done with America yet I 'm afraid.
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enlightened one
2013/04/15 21:52:44
Thank you - I hoped you had a blessed Easter too. :D
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ITALIAN CLICKER
2013/04/15 03:38:14
My sweet friend, I like you so much; I love your personality and your beautiful spirit. ♥ I think once in a while it is good to hear or read that you are a fantastic person who makes a real difference in this world.You are important to people you love and care for, though maybe not always aware that you are so very dear to many others and appreciated... Please, paste this message on the wall of nine women or men who you consider fantastic! Hugs & kisses to you & I hope you get a lot back! You should send this message to nine friends, including me, (if you think I deserve it & if not you still deserve it) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Have a Blessed Day ;-))
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Civic Minded
2013/04/12 15:22:39
Hello, my friend! Stop by and visit my latest poll.
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Phyl *In God i Trust*
2013/04/10 02:10:29
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Katherine
2013/04/06 09:07:02
Well that image shrunk beyond the ability to read it!
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Katherine
2013/04/06 09:06:15
Not as late as me... I don't think I got the message.. or forgot to respond??? Sorry about that.
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View all 5,057 comments »You do your research;) I'm proud to defend my beliefs but must admit I'm far from a saint, I only wish. Our two nations have much in common, more as the world grows increasingly fragile & people look for shelter.
Nice to meet you & sorry for sounding like a nut!
My sweet friend, I like you so much; I love your personality and your beautiful spirit. ♥ I think once in a while it is good to hear or read that you are a fantastic person who makes a real difference in this world.You are important to people you love and care for, though maybe not always aware that you are so very dear to many others and appreciated... Please, paste this message on the wall of nine women or men who you consider fantastic! Hugs & kisses to you & I hope you get a lot back! You should send this message to nine friends, including me, (if you think I deserve it & if not you still deserve it) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Have a Blessed Day
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