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mememememe
The Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don’t have to be listed in order of relevance to you.
I’ve included essayists and lyricists, too. This is really hard without having my ( Read more... ) -
hamnavoe, george mackay brown
Hamnavoe
by George Mackay Brown
My father passed with his penny letters
Through closes opening and shutting like legends
When barbarous with gulls
Hamnavoe’s morning broke
On the salt and tar steps. Herring boats,
Puffing red sails, the tillers
Of cold horizons, leaned
Down the gull-gaunt tide
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npm: t. s. eliot
Burnt Norton (no. 1 of ‘Four Quartets’), by T. S. Eliot
Because of this:
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
Also, because it makes me think of Eastertime; it seems to be tradition for various people on the internet (I’m lookin’ at you, Mel & Rachel) to post the ( Read more... ) -
mis.cell.an.e.o.us
BBC Radio 4 are have made available their American Authors Collection. “To tie in with Mark Lawson’s landmark Capturing America series, Front Row presents author interviews recorded between 1998 and 2009.” Including Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Philip Roth… Man, I wish this had been available while I was doing my degree.
Zoe Saldana: ( Read more... ) -
quick recs: spn, tattoos & weddings
The Excellent Glass of the Body, by roque_clasique . "And Ellen remembers a lot of things - remembers the moment she’d felt Jo leave her body, remembers brushing her blonde hair and how she’d scream when the brush hit a snarl, remembers purple snowsuits and Jo asleep in the car and how Bill carried her like he was carrying his own heart outside of his chest - ( Read more... ) -
once in a blue moon
There's a blue moon tonight and it's actually making the clouds around it black-blue. Very eery, especially after watching the BBC's newest adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. I never want to hear children laugh again.
And...HAPPY NEW YEAR!! May you and yours be healthy and happy throughout 2010. *clinks glasses*
P.S. I'm currently in a different ( Read more... )
