JACKIE COLLINS
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People can learn a great deal from biography. I have made a habit of this since I retired after 50 years of paid employment and formal studies: 1949 to 1999. The...
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JACKIE COLLINS
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People can learn a great deal from biography. I have made a habit of this since I retired after 50 years of paid employment and formal studies: 1949 to 1999. The...
After seeing the biographical drama film, A Beautiful Mind, twice: on 15 October 2013 and 12 September 2015, respectively, I put the following sequence of three pieces of prose and poetry...
It has been nearly a dozen years since I posted an opening note on this thread and, since no one has responded, I'll keep the thread alive with the following item I wrote about Dante some years...
Thanks, Pompey Bum! Are you any relation to the great and historic Pompey in republican Rome?--Ron
THANKING E.L. DOCTOROW
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The acclaimed American novelist and playwright E. L. Doctorow has given writers like myself many writing tips. He died two weeks ago, on 21 July 2015, in...
After more than 7 years I'll add some more of my thoughts on philosophy and political science at this link to my website: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/PHILOSOPHY.html ...My website on the subject of...
BELIEF’S DELIGHT
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Anyone who has followed my poetic oeuvre over the last 25 years, 1990 to 2015, will realize that Emily Dickinson provides, for me, an inspiration perhaps exceeding any...
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
Out on the periphery
William Seward Burroughs II also known by his pen name William Lee(1914-1997) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer or...
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The Secret World of Lewis Carroll was televised on ABCTV on 28/4/'15(8:30 to 9:30 p.m.). For fans of both literature & scandal The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (BBCTwo) was a wonderfully...
A very belated thanks, Tayside. I can hardly believe it's four years since I was last on this thread! There is a link to the topic "The Bahá'í Faith and Marxism: Proceedings of a Canadian Conference...
Staying on the subject of mental health, I'll add the following:
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A GIRL-AND-A-BOY-INTERRUPTED
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American drama film, and...
COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS
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During the last 16 years, my retirement from a half century of student-and-paid-employment life, 1949 to 1999, I have reinvented myself into several roles....
REVISITING BRIDESHEAD
Revisiting Brideshead was televised last night.1 I had seen this 11 part series on television back in the 1980s or early 1990s after it first came out in 1981. I had not read...
REVISITING BRIDESHEAD
Revisiting Brideshead was televised last night.1 I had seen this 11 part series on television back in the 1980s or early 1990s after it first came out in 1981. I had not read...
I thank you both, ennison and Eiseabhal, for your comments. I wish you well in this New Year, 2015!-Ron Price, Australia
Words of appreciation, kallian97, are....always appreciated.-Ron Price, Tasmania
Your question, M, deserves a response. I only saw your question today and I'll write an extended piece about a subject I've given much thought to. Just skim and scan the following to find relevant...
Thank's Pumpkin337. I'd like to respond to your post, your words, that: "isn't it awfully presumptive to connect the two? to see meaning the author surely did not intend in his work? to attribute...
ELIA KAZAN: From the Periphery to the Centre
Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and...
PYNCHON AND I
...meeting our match in cyberspace
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.(8 May 1937) was born the very week, the very month, that the North American Baha'is were putting into...
I did a search at this site for some comment on Thomas Pynchon. Finding little, I post the following:
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PYNCHON AND I
...meeting our match in cyberspace
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Thomas...
Thanks, folks, for your responses. Before leaving I'll post some general thoughts from one of my favorite psychoanalysts.-Ron
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ERICH FROMM
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Erich...
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News of the death of Robin Williams on 12/8/'14 stunned fans young and old. Comedians, actors, directors, many of the rich and famous who had been influenced by Williams paid their...
Preamble:
From time to time in these years of my retirement from half a century of a student-and-employment life, 1949 to 1999 and, in this case, in the last three weeks before I enter my 70s, I...
My dear M! Some of imagination's mobilisation.-Ron
POETRY OF ABUNDANCE
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Back in April 1988, as I was finishing my first term in my first year as a lecturer in a technical and further...