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Seeing Paris #1 1920s (by travelfilmarchive)

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:41:58 -0400

Seeing Paris #1 1920s (by travelfilmarchive)

"Over there on the dining room table are just twenty-five of the thousands of essays on the poetry of..."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:46:44 -0400

“

Over there on the dining room table
are just twenty-five of the thousands of essays
on the poetry of Robert Frost
produced this week alone in the USA,
the world leader in essays on Robert Frost.

The essays are about ambiguity
in The Road Not Taken, and also ambiguity
in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Every year the English majors of America
must read these poems and analyze their ambiguity
or compare and contrast their ambiguity
in five double-spaced pages.

And the English teachers of America must read these pages
and determine whether they are incisive or not incisive.

I am one of those teachers. I try to do my share.
Because if we don’t do this—if Frost’s ambiguity
is not discussed, and if these discussions are not assessed,
and then finally graded—well, what’s the point of all this?
What are we doing here?

Therefore,
I must walk over to the dining room table
and determine whether the essays are incisive or not incisive.

And yet two days have passed, an entire weekend,
and it’s Sunday evening and I am having a glass of wine
and the essays on ambiguity in the poetry of Robert Frost
remain unassessed by me, and this is getting very serious.

”

- “Robert Frost”

by George Bilgere

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:58:01 -0400

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

- Gary Provost (via qmsd)

The Charger Online

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:38:48 -0500

The Charger Online

Yoshi’s coffee

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:47:53 -0500

Yoshi’s coffee

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Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:51:37 -0500

"When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:26:07 -0500

“

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

”

- Mary Oliver (via theohpioneer)

chrisalcantara: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:27:07 -0500

chrisalcantara:

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Casey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in THE GREAT GATSBY.

Christopher Walken cooks a chicken.

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:34:20 -0500

Christopher Walken cooks a chicken.

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THEREOF ON STEROIDS

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:52:57 -0400

BY JESSICA GOLDKIND AND REBECCA AZHDAM

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heretofore

hitherto

hithertofore

witherto

insofaras

albeitasitmay

thereitformay

insofarasmuch

forthwithhence

nonethelesserforit

neverthelessormore

henceforthenstance

forthwithorwithout

whencefortheretowith

asyetaforementioned

hithertonevermentioned

whetherornotwithstanding

NPR population growth video

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:58:21 -0400

NPR population growth video

A short documentary film by Sergey Stefanovich on the personal...

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:48:37 -0400

A short documentary film by Sergey Stefanovich on the personal library of Duncan Fallowell

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