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J.C.’s 2023 Year in Books
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Tulip Spring, to D. © JC Milne
This morning's poem was a belated anniversary gift to my husband (who brought me red roses and dark chocolates!). It obviously refers to more than tulips!
Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
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Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
fo Read more of this blog post »
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Wonderful approach to Baudelaire, Ulysse! You make me want to pick up Les Fleurs du Mal again - something I hadn't reckoned on doing!
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Dear Charles, I’m flattered to be your muse, I really am. How many women can say they’ve inspired a genius to write poems about them, poems that will be read and loved hundreds of years from now? You have immortalized me in perfect rhymes, and thanks " Read more of this review » |
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Entertaining review, Ivy-Mabel! I like Oscar Wilde but hadn't heard of this one.
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"This not particularly spooky ghost story combines two paradoxical elements typical of Wilde's writing - humour in all its various forms (from innocent slapstick to sarcasm) and the dark side of life (as the ghost rues his sinful past and yearns for t"
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David wrote: "This sounds like a very interesting book Jeanne. I know so little about Serbia and need to widen my scope of world literature."
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Fionnuala wrote: "J.C. wrote: "Hats off to you two, Théo and Fionnuala!"
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It was Ian’s fascinating and detailed review that led me to this book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... I agree with him that this is a remarkable book and well worth reading. Ian gives the background in detail, so I won’t repeat it, except to ...more |
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"The extraordinary depictions of the beauty and vastness of the ocean clash in this brief novella with the inability of the protagonists to lead a peaceful and harmonious life. With little to do except to admire the tides and the gulls, the characters"
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing:
"Though I've never read a whit of "Elena Ferrante," I do know that she's obsessive about hiding her identity. These essays were apparently delivered as lectures by an actress. Guest speaker. Spokesperson.
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“I have always been a man of peace. I have always denounced the man who strove to tamper with an oppressed people by any appeal to physical force. I have always said that moral force was the degree of deliberation in each man's mind which told him when submission was a duty or resistance not a crime; and that a true application of moral force would effect every change, but in case it should fail, physical force would come to its aid like an electric shock — and no man could prevent it; but that he who advised or attempted to marshal it would be the first to desert it at the moment of danger. God forbid that I should wish to see my country plunged into horrors of physical revolution. I wish her to win her liberties by peaceful means.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
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“Were women being confined yet again to that alabaster pedestal so beloved of the Victorian age, when Woman as better-than-man gave men a license to be gleefully and enjoyably worse than women, while all the while proclaiming that they couldn’t help it because it was their nature? Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“The great French historian Ernest Renan in the late 1880s denied that a nation was based on ethnicity and language or blood-and-soil nationality. His argument was that a nation consists of people who have a collective shared sentiment and that sentiment is based on myth and history and a series of symbols and markers of identity. There is a constant referendum going as to whether that sentiment still exists in the union. Renan’s concept of a nation is that it can be ephemeral; it’s not there forever, it is not a permanency as it varies according to circumstances. This is a very intriguing parallel with what’s going on in the UK today.”
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etherealfire wrote: "Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3"I'm glad you accepted!
Jeanne.
Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3
Thank you, Beata - I look forward to sharing books with you.Jeanne.
Happy to be your GR Friend, JC, and thanks for a lovely request :))
