The Highwayman |
A beautiful, tragic poem that conjures up images of rural 18th century England. An especially good musical version of this is sung by Loreena McKennitt. I highly recommend it.
________________________...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 21:51:00 GMT |
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning |
A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING. by John Donne
AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, &nb...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:02:00 GMT |
The Female of the Species |
The Female of the Species
by Rudyard Kipling - 1911
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.But the she-bear thus accosted r...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:50:00 GMT |
1984 in 2008 |
From some other brilliant person's blog. Not my words, but certainly my sentiments.
http://www.myspace.com/thedefinedpragmatists
a commentator i saw the other night mentioned george orwell...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:31:00 GMT |
The Pale Blue Dot |
(From Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, Random House, 1994)
..>
..>
Earth (the dot in the middle) as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecr...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:11:00 GMT |
Oh great, like anyone cares. |
I obviously don't spend a lot of time on this Myspace page, but I felt like jazzing it up a bit with new pics of myself and 50% of my cats. I even added a terribly grainy video of one of the kitt...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 21:45:00 GMT |
The Twilight Zone |
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the r...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:00:00 GMT |
