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This Is Not the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
My friend Brian challenged me, but in my heart it feels too late to take the ALS Challenge. So we have contributed to the charities to which we regularly contribute, and instead of dousing myself with ice, I offer you … Continue reading
Posted in Quotation
Tagged ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Good Friday 1613, John Donne, Poetry
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The Methode of a Poet Historical
“For the Methode of a Poet Historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Spenser, Historical Fiction, King Arthur, Poetry, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Faerie Queene
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Bookshelf: Apuleius
The climax of The Golden Ass is when Lucius is transformed from donkey back to human form by the goddess Isis, in order to be initiated. Here’s what he says about the rites directly: “Listen then, but believe; for what … Continue reading
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Tagged Apuleius, Isis, Joseph and Aseneth, Mysteries, Pseudepigrapha, The Golden Ass
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Soundly
P.S. Do you know, I meant to hurl that nasty statuette into the tall grass, but I suppose I must have forgotten to do so? As I lay down on my saddle blankets, I saw it crouching at the edges … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Sample
Tagged Frontier Eldritch, Seven Stars, The Good the Bad and the Eldritch
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Everything
“Immo vero” inquam “Impertite sermonis non quidem curiosum, sed qui velim scire vel cuncta vel certe plurima…” “No, please,” I said, “let me in on this — not that I’m nosy, it’s just that I’m the sort of person who … Continue reading
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Gangrene
This year, the Gangrene Film Festival is branching out by adding a second day (August 30) that will be a Creative Symposium. I’ll be part of the symposium, first doing a Choose Your Own Apocalypse event with the Space Balrogs … Continue reading
Bookshelf: This Darkness Light
Not content to start his latest with a bang, Michaelbrent Collings starts it with three simultaneous explosions: a vacillating U.S. president apparently led by a mysterious person known only as ‘X’ into authorizing missile strikes on a civilian population against … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Assassins, End of the World, Michaelbrent Collings, This Darkness Light, Thriller, US President
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What Has Happened
I’ve just finished reading Rust Hills’s book Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular. I’ve quoted him a few times, and could have quoted him more; I feel compelled to wind up my reading with the sharing of … Continue reading
The Less Clear We’d Be
“It’s true that the basic way we know the personality of others is by their behavior, but we are often aware of a discrepancy between our own horrid actions and our own nice selves, and we can sometimes extend this … Continue reading
