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Elizabeth Goudge, and ....
(Disclaimer - I discovered these two books of Goudge's just recently, perhaps much too old for them ( Read more... ) -
Reply to Rilstone's "The Last Star Wars Article"
Reply to Rilstone's "The Last Star Wars Article" at
https://andrewrilstone.livejournal.com/268275.html?view=2035&style=mine#t2035
Where we went in the 1970s was an old dull theatre, we walked through the real world of heat and concrete into ( Read more... ) -
Loving, and old Friend,
Although I received no letter from you by this ship, yet forasmuch as I know you expect the performance of my promise, which was, to write unto you truly and faithfully of all things, I have therefore at this time sent unto you accordingly. Referring you for further satisfaction to our more large relations.
You shall ( Read more... ) -
51F-49M
Hello, visitors from ssc.
In my opinion, reaching even say 45-55 in this century is impossible //// -- which makes it, or something like it, fair game for a premise as an /// aon what would have to change from now til then, for it to be possible. -
A wise pre-election post
Tuesday Shouldn’t Change The Narrative
Posted on November 7, 2016. by [Redacted]
Lots of things can happen tomorrow. Maybe it rains in Philadelphia, that city’s racially diverse and left-leaning voters stay home, and Pennsylvania goes for Trump, winning him the election. Maybe there’s a really good get-out-the-vote campaign among Hispanics, and ( Read more... ) -
Re: November 8, 2016
Photo of a very long waiting line under trees, caption: "This is not the line to vote. This is the line to put stickers on Susan B. Anthony's gravestone." -
THE [MARVELOUS] LAND OF OZ will probably work.
I want to do a sort of a time-table here: which characters are doing what at the same time. Has anyone done this already?
Lazily hoping for suggestions for an Oz or Tarzan book to analyze with a lot of POV characters doing different things in different places. -
Solstice Ritual
Turned off the lights ( Read more... ) -
From _1491_, support for our "Thanksgiving Story"
Last week I posted the account* of what we call "The First Thanksgiving", a celebration in Plymouth in 1621 between the Mayflower colonists and the the Native Americans who had befriended them. This piece from Mann's wonderful _1491_ puts the 1621 party in context, explaining the Wampanoags' realpolitik motives for their kindness ( Read more... )
