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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -- Ma...

Russell Banks never does take the reader quite to the moment of the explosion of the Hindenburg. But that image - haunting, ominous, and loo...

Because our worldview so often reinforces our own particular preferences and privileges, when someone tries to change it, by whatever means,...

Devastation The hardening is deliberate and cruel, as is all that will come thereafter. The only consolation being that so many, ...

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Today I read this following passage, in George Eliot’s Middlemarch . It is between Dorothea and Will. Dorothea is married to this dust-farti...

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn ...

Father, forgive me for what I am about to post.... Have a great Wednesday! Amen! ***********

← On the weekend I went to WALL-E. Here is a robot that needs no introduction. Probably most of the people reading this have also been to ...

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a han...

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Balder Every Morning Like he does not have enough of his own. He’s covered, from ear to claw with it. And wants mine. I cannot t...

← Me, reading on the beach, after work. Ahhhh…. It’s F-F Day! [That stands for F inally F riday! ] I have not been writing much on Bookpuddl...

For their mutual birthdays the pair always contrived some ‘surprise present’ in the shape of a glass receptacle for tooth-powder, or what no...

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move...similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is you...

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about ...

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The Underdog Book Club© When it really comes down to it folks, I am not a reader of Best-sellers. In fact, I tend to gravitate toward lesser...

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It m...