Archive for September, 2008
A Soundless Echo
From Not Without Dust and Heat from Beryl Markham’s West With the Night There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, […]
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From Philomont Advice from Elton John “I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. “
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Sympathy for Emma Goldman
From the Outlaw Poet “Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.” -Mick Jagger
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Peter Straub on his fantasy job
From Metatraveller Peter Straub “Since my fantasy job is identical to the job I have, I have to answer that question in this way: Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that […]
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What the Skater Saw in Joyce
From Quez Don’t Sleep: “God is just a shout in the street.”-Stephen Dedalus, from Jame’s Joyce’s Ulysses
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Armadillo Alex
From Like Ships Run Ashore (We Move) I’ve been doing research for a non-fiction piece, and this is by far my favorite piece I have found. Armadillo in Cream Sauce Two lbs. armadillo meat One 1/4 cups dry white wine 1/2 cup oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed (optional) 1/4 cup butter Salt and pepper to […]
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From Stephaniemc Time to Kill “You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” -pink floyd
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Dances with Daffodils and Cows
From Dances with Daffodils “It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it.” -Robert E. Lee “And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.” -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”
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Each week, we’ll be pulling a variety of the posts made by the Creative Writing students in their commonplace books. Enjoy!
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Creative Writing at Longwood 