Winston Churchill ~ On Writing

There is a story that an American general once asked Churchill to look over the draft of an address he had written.  It was returned with the comment 'Too many passives and too many zeds.'  The general asked him what he meant, and was told:  'Too many Latinate polysyllabics like "systematize", "prioritize" and "finalize".  And then the passives.  What if I had said, instead of "We shall fight on the beaches", "Hostilities will be engaged with our adversary on the coastal perimeter"?'

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

~ The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, Compiled by Dominique Enright, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., England, 2001.  (Churchill 1874 - 1965)

www.winstonchurchillcanada.ca The annual Winston Churchill dinner will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Albany Club of Toronto.  Speaker:  Terry Reardon, author of Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King, So Similar, So Different.

Join Neil Paul today in The Neat Little Bookshop ~ 1:00 p.m.  Neil will read from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Informal Round Table discussion.

We reserve the Third Thursday of each month for An Afternoon With The Authors 

Retired from teaching, Neil is the author of A Small Volume; he frequently speaks to organizations and groups.

It may be Spring ~ Winter-like Temperatures

Looking West

 

Looking East

PROJECT:  PIKE CREEK RESTORATION


Wednesday Photos:  Pike Creek, Regional Rd. 17, Cayuga. lbw

It is Official !   It's the First Day of Spring




Two Tugboats (Click on photo.)

 

Docked

A Chilly Playground

File photo ~ Neil Paul with Fan Mrs. Huitema

Please join Neil Paul on Thursday, March 21, 1:00

Reading:  Shakespeare's Hamlet

Neil published A Small Volume, a book of Poetry

"Coffee pot's always on..."

Bring me the sunset in a cup,

     Reckon the morning's flagons up,

   And say how many dew;

Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the waver sleeps
   Who spun the breadths of blue!

Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
   Among astonished boughs;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, ~
   The debauchee of dews!

Also, who laid the rainbow's piers,
Also, who leads the docile spheres
   By withes of supple blue?
Whose fingers string the stalactite,
Who counts the wampum of the night,
   To see that none is due?

Who built this little Alban house
And shut the windows down so close
   My spirit cannot see?
Who'll let me out some gala day,
With implements to fly away,
   Passing pomposity?

~ Emily Dickinson, "Problems" Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

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