Ouse Street Cayuga

INDIAN SUMMER ~ Emily Dickinson

THESE are the days when birds come back,

A very few, a bird or two,

To take a backward look.

These are the days when skies put on

The old, old sophistries of June, ~

A blue and gold mistake.

Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee,

Almost thy plausibility

Induces my belief,

Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,

And softly through the altered air

Hurries a timid leaf!

Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,

Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine!

(Photo:  October 25, 2012 lbw)

 Meet the Author ~

Kirk Du Guid

 Kirk Du Guid will be in The Neat Little Bookshop Thursday, October 25 at 10:00 a.m. until noon.  Drop in, say "Hi" and pick up Kirk's latest book, "The First Drug Squad."  Kirk is the author of "The First Cold Case" and "Soldiers' Stories."

(Photo:  files lbwalker)



Ruthven Park 243 Hwy. 54, Cayuga

 "From Ruthven to Passchendael" ~ a play with puppets by Studio Babette.

Remembrance Day, Sunday, November 11, 2:00 p.m.

PD Day, Friday, November 16, 10:00 a.m.

This production commemorates the upcoming anniversary of World War I by honouring the sacrifices made by the Thompson family of Cayuga and Brock's Rangers.
Watch for upcoming event.  Please visit   www.ruthvenpark.ca or www.studiobabette.ca for information.

Photo:  lbwalker

On Writing ~
E. Hemingway  (Two letters in March, 1925.  Paris.)

To:  Horace Liveright (American Publisher):  "As the contract only mentions excisions it is understood of course that no alterations of words shall be made without my approval.  This protects you as much as it does me as the stories are written so tight and so hard that the alteration of a word can throw an entire story out of key...There is nothing in the book that has not a definite place in its organization and if I at any time seem to repeat myself I have a good reason for doing so." 

To Dr. C.E.Hemingway  (EH's Dad):  "You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across--not to just depict life--or criticize it--but to actually make it alive.  So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing.  You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.  Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it.  Things aren't that way.  It is only by showing both sides--3 dimensions and if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to."

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)

~ Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917 - 1961, Edited by Carlos Baker,Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.

William Faulkner lost his job at the University of Mississippi post office in Oxford.  The official complaint read in part:  ~

"That you are neglectful of your duties, in that you are a habitual reader of books and magazines, and seem reluctant to cease reading long enough to wait on the patrons; that you have a book being printed at the present time, the greater part of which was written on duty at the post-office; that some of the patrons will not trust you to forward their mail, because of your past carelessness and these patrons have their neighbors forward same for them while away on vacations..."

~ Literature and the Arts, R. Spangenburg & D.K. Moser, Facts on File Inc., 1997

Wm. Faulkner (1898 - 1962) American writer, Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Death of a Friend ~

"Though I hadn't seen much of him of recent years, we had a sort of permanent relationship...
I feel myself as if I had been suddenly robbed of some part of my own personality ~ since there must have been some aspect of myself that had been developed in relation to him."

~ Edmund Wilson written to Zelda Fitzgerald on Scott's death

Our hearts go out today to family and friends.  Our condolences to those who have lost a dear father, husband and friend.

Photo:  lbwalker

The Ballad of East and West
~ Ruyard Kipling

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the earth!

~ Ruyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) English author, poet, The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories.

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