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What book are you reading?
#31
RE: What book are you reading?
What a lovely poem, Whitman? It's very good Smile

John Donne's poem http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/mourning.php
" A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

(December 5, 2010 at 9:40 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: "Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Strong and content, I travel the open road."
-----Song of the Open Road

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you."
--- A Song of Myself

I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm staring at the stars.
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#32
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EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -

Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

The only other one who has touched me so deeply was ee cummings. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__...oems/14205

Lately I've been reading Blake and Rimbaud, but a friend lent me Borges and I love it.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limits/

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#33
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(December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -

Emily Dickens and Robert Frost were probably my real introduction to poetry, and I can recite Noyes' "The Highwayman" and Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" and some of "The Raven" but Eliot... Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Wow, he sure can write (Eliot). Thank-you for sharing, I read them all, and I really enjoyed Borges poem the most. I'll have to check out the others sometime as well. Smile Haha, I have not memorized my favourite poems yet. Ted Hughes is pretty good as well! Oh yes? I got into Dickens a few years ago, not so much now...but I love Frost.
I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm staring at the stars.
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#34
RE: What book are you reading?
The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
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#35
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"I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.
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Leo van Miert
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#36
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(December 6, 2010 at 2:05 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: "I shall wear midnight" by Terry Pratchett.

I expect to get this for christmas from my mum.
Its been the same every christams for at least a decade, the new pratchett thats what I get.

But what a writer, I'm currently re-reading 'feet of clay'.
I will miss his work when his dementia gets too bad for him to continue.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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#37
RE: What book are you reading?
(December 5, 2010 at 9:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: EverythingAfter would kick me if I didn't include Eliot -

Eliot was the one who taught me how a poem can turn you inside out and upside down. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Hehe. Well played! Shelley never ceases to amaze me: Mont Blanc.

The book I'm currently reading is "War and Peace." Almost done. I may shoot for "1491" after that. I bought it new a year or more ago, and it's just been sitting in the reading cue, so I might try to finish it off.
(December 6, 2010 at 7:36 am)Zen Badger Wrote: The rise and fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

Ahh yes, this is on my list as well. A long with The decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. Light reading, indeed. Smile
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"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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#38
RE: What book are you reading?
(December 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm)everythingafter Wrote: I bought it new a year or more ago, and it's just been sitting in the reading cue, so I might try to finish it off.

Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1

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#39
RE: What book are you reading?
(December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1

I've seen that one at the bookstores too. Have you read it? Sounds like a good one as well.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot

"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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RE: What book are you reading?
(December 6, 2010 at 6:04 pm)everythingafter Wrote:
(December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Ah...damn, I thought you were talking about the OTHER 1491. http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-A...282&sr=1-1

I've seen that one at the bookstores too. Have you read it? Sounds like a good one as well.

Halfway through - it's spectacular.
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