Beginning with a Study in Scarlet, originally titled A Tangled Skein. John gave me an early birthday gift of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, which I plan to begin the moment I return from work tonight! How could I have passed these XX years without once reading a Sherlock Holmes mystery? The horror [...]
Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. He was highly — often wickedly — unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader’s imagination.
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John planted three Rhododendron in the front yard, on either side of the small side door and under the half moon window facing the drive.He tilled under and replanted the front lawn, to four feet in, churning under the salt and debris from the winter road care.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagrationOf [...]
Hating the Dog, by Paul B. Hertneky
Emerson quote of the moment
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
[from T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]
A passionate thinker trapped in the body of a beast: Grendel
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