Smiles for Today ~
"Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes." ~ John O'Hara
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy." ~ Bob Hope, American entertainer
"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Friday, November 15, 2013
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| "Beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." |
Thursday, November 14, 2013
"Literary excellence is the chief pleasure in reading..."
"I hold on to my faith that enough people can tell the difference between a good novel and a bad one, and take the risk of saying that literary excellence is the chief pleasure in reading, but another is how one may use a novel or tale for information. Literature maps the world for us, fleshing out what we get from newspaper articles and television reports, giving us a parallel landscape infinitely rich and various where we may stroll any time we like, tourists in imaginary worlds that mirror real ones. What did we know about the feel, taste, texture, the airs and aromas of South America before the recent explosion of wonderful South American novels, most translated into English? Or about Africa until the novels written by Africans in English, which issued from one end of the continent to the other?.... ~ we are invited in, for writers are like hosts: come and share this with me."
~ Doris Lessing (b. Oct. 22, 1919) British novelist, poet. Forward to The Cambridge Guide to LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, Ian Ousby. 1993
"I hold on to my faith that enough people can tell the difference between a good novel and a bad one, and take the risk of saying that literary excellence is the chief pleasure in reading, but another is how one may use a novel or tale for information. Literature maps the world for us, fleshing out what we get from newspaper articles and television reports, giving us a parallel landscape infinitely rich and various where we may stroll any time we like, tourists in imaginary worlds that mirror real ones. What did we know about the feel, taste, texture, the airs and aromas of South America before the recent explosion of wonderful South American novels, most translated into English? Or about Africa until the novels written by Africans in English, which issued from one end of the continent to the other?.... ~ we are invited in, for writers are like hosts: come and share this with me."
~ Doris Lessing (b. Oct. 22, 1919) British novelist, poet. Forward to The Cambridge Guide to LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, Ian Ousby. 1993
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
To My Brother by Vera Brittain (In memory of July 1st, 1916)
Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart,
Received when in that grand and tragic 'show'
You played your part,
Two years ago,
And silver in the summer morning sun
I see the symbol of your courage glow ~
That Cross you won
Two years ago.
May you endure to lead the Last Advance
And with your men pursue the flying foe
As once in France
Two years ago.
~ Vera Brittain (Dec. 29, 1893 - March 29, 1970) British writer, poet, feminist and pacifist.
Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart,
Received when in that grand and tragic 'show'
You played your part,
Two years ago,
And silver in the summer morning sun
I see the symbol of your courage glow ~
That Cross you won
Two years ago.
May you endure to lead the Last Advance
And with your men pursue the flying foe
As once in France
Two years ago.
~ Vera Brittain (Dec. 29, 1893 - March 29, 1970) British writer, poet, feminist and pacifist.
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To Our Readers: On Thursday, November 21, a special afternoon with Dr. Alan Bishop ~ a reading and discussion of poet and pacifist Vera Brittain. Everyone welcome. 1:00 p.m.
[Vera Brittain lost her brother, her fiancee and several close friends in the war.]
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