June 2011
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Weekend Music Another find from either the eMusic or Amazon daily free tracks. It has become pretty predictable that almost any introspective melancholy singer-songwriter will be compared to Nick Drake. In my experience, the comparison is not generally particularly illuminating: the net is cast too wide, because Drake was so distinctive, musically and lyrically and…
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Click to read the whole strip. The strip is not political, but those first two frames capture an experience very familiar to most conservatives; if not racism, they’ll be accused of some related form of bigotry in almost any debate of a socio-political nature. The only good thing about the wildly indiscriminate charge of racism…
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While parts of the country due north and west from here are having floods and tornadoes, we're having a drought. We had a big storm on Ash Wednesday that dumped several inches of rain in a few hours. That was March 9, almost three months ago now. Since then we have had, I think, three…
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Little brother for all I know the stars are no more distant than your teeth and no more strange I imagine you submerged in the body’s moment no self ever breaking the surface to look down from outside on itself or away to see the waves breaking on a distant beach a line of trees…
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Somewhere in the city which no one loves blind children are begging on corners in their eyes a cyclone of grey light in their ears the jangle of their tags in their hearts the hope of an implausible deliverance and love for those whose burden it is to steal from their cups
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As the dragonfly flies as the treetops bend as these inhabit the air so the mind inhabits the world both pressing and pressed against The surface of things alone impinges the heat of the sun the sound of insects at dry noon the distant flute the storm across the water Something someone is there we…
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More precisely, two reviews of books about Reformation England. I haven’t read either of the books, but the reviews are interesting in themselves. First, Craig Burrell on Eamon Duffy’s Fires of Faith, a study of the brief and tragic (from several points of view) reign of Mary Tudor. Like, I suppose, most Protestants (or at least…
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