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A Thousand Rebellions
A little old school hxc for ya 5 days ago by outlawpoet. “If we just look, inside each of us a thousand rebellions sleep.” -From “Chorus of One” by Richmond, VA’s own Strike Anywhere
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On Becoming Great
Words To Remember Over The Holidays 1 hour ago by alexodom. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
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From Glints of Light Rescue by Jason Shinder When the doctor inserts his two fingers into my mother rectum, the pupils of her eyes move like blue-fish under the ice in a bucket before they are carried away. I am climbing out of a well and offering her some water. I am picking up her […]
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Howards End and Umbrellas
Howards End 4 days ago by trojanmanman. All men are created equal–all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.–Leonard Bast
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Marriage 3 days ago by metatraveller. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Nietzsche
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Glints of Light and Cat’s Cradle
From Glints of Light “See the cat? See the cradle?” 2 Again, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle: Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away.
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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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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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The Plan–Students Commonplacing
The plan is actually pretty simple. Over the next week or so, as classes begin, I, along with my brilliant nonfiction colleague, Scout, will be adding links for our workshop students’ commonplace books. Students will be expected to post in these commonplace books minimally once a week. The schedule for students’ posting will be given […]
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