Having a bit of a crush on the Countess (and major Logos crush) (and Kathycf) (and KizPaws) (grace86 and Anya da are too young) I was touched when the Countess posted that I was missed. These are words I rarely hear and they came most opportunately. The large reason for the non-blogs was a total lack of (to me) intresting incidents of my life that were/are funny, siginicant, tragic, important etc. I was thinking of a blog on the Navigators or giving a young lady with blue eyeshadow ...
I am a teacher of literature in English in Nigeria. The subject is now considered a dying Subject. In the state I teach, over 200 students may not graduate from the English Depatment off the College of Education this year. This portends a great danger for careers like Law, Mass Comm.,Theatre Arts and English Language which require a credit in Literature as a prerequisite. All efforts to ginger the interests of students have yielded low results. Which way forward? this is ...
I solved my vintage circa 1981 Rubik's Cube last night at 11:50 pm Pacific Standard Time. :0
Okay, here is the next Literary trivia Question: Name the poet/essayist from the 17-18th centuries who wrote this: "In this place everything I see or hear Starts up an image of sweet remembrance, Sweet in itself yet with intrusive pain: The consciousness of present time, the vain Desire to hold that very past, though it Was sad, the uttering of the words, “I was.”
He isn't here and I miss him. Anyone heard from him? I know he's older - I hope he's not sick or anything. For the Christians here at lit-net: Following is a link to the church I attended several years ago. To date, I learned more at this church, under this pastor, in two years than I had learned decades spent under other tutalage. Why you might ask? Simply, because he holds nothing back. Everything he learned in seminary, every class he took, every bit gleaned ...
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