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Fools – Hubert Brown – MANCHILD IN PROMISED LAND – 1965

January 23, 2025 – 12:07 pm

I said a fool was somebody stupid. Dad said I was right, but there was more to it than that. He said it takes a stupid person to keep looking for something that is never there. – Hubert Brown – 1965 As true then as it is now.

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Willa Cather’s WHEN I KNEW CRANE

January 21, 2025 – 11:27 am

< http://www.online-literature.com/willa-cather/4311/… An amazing passage from Willa Cather’s WHEN I KNEW CRANE about he meeting him several times in Omaha 1894. Men will sometimes reveal themselves to children, or to people whom they think never to see again, more completely than they ever do to their confreres. From the wise we hold back alike our […]

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Junkie

February 22, 2024 – 9:11 pm

Back in the 1980s on several occasions I espyed Burrough’s walking corpse crossing Grand Central, his unpolished shoes slithering over the marble floor with an effortless gait. No hello. We knew not each other. I sometimes a drunk. He high and listlessly heading to score dope, his once elegant suit hanging off a scarecrow frame, […]

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Moby Dick Amnesia

August 28, 2023 – 11:13 am

Everyone of my generation was forced to read Heman Merville’s MOBY DICK. THe first line of this epic novel “Call me Ishmael” was burned into our memories and teachers spent days trying to decipher the meaning of author, but none of us were aware of MOBY DICK’s voyage in American Literature having only sold 3000 […]

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BURNT ORANGE HERESY by Charles Willieford

June 3, 2023 – 2:58 am

I could have taken State Road Seven straight away by picking it up west of West Palm Beach, but because the old two-lane highway was used primarily by truck traffic barreling for Miami’s back door, into Hialeah, I stayed on U.S. 1 all the way to Boynton Beach before searching for a through road to […]

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