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They were the words of my eleventh grade AP english teacher, Mrs. Hilliard, after she left a long note in my yearbook - "To the female Holden Caulfield" (That always kills me.) I can still open to that page, and that one phrase -

"Don't be late for life."

The loaded phrase stares back at me, slyly tripping through my mind.

Then she handed me over to Mrs. Shuford, the 12th grade AP english teacher, lively at eighty-two years old, ...

The cold & the hoar frost both remind me of you
And the rediscovered country of yesterday

Is invoked by an old song on the radio.
Yes! I often revisit those halcyon times

When it seemed the whole wide world was naïve and young
Blossoming with the arrogance of callow youth.

But that is a fragile flower and it gives birth
To strange fruit that slowly ripens with many hues,

Shades of colour plus great ...

The early morning sun silhouettes the castle
That rides upon the hill high up above.
A warm September breeze envelops me
momentarily elevating my soul.

The blonde behind the wheel of the green TR 7
Stops & smiles as she brakes at the junction,
Every morning we exchange the same salutation.
I don't even know who she is.

Passing W.H. Smiths I watch her pull away
And my journey carries on as before.
In ...

Each morning
On my drive to work I pass
him.
He's holding a plastic grocery bag.
It's cold.
He's bundled in a hunter's cap, a thick wool jacket, and thick leather gloves.

Each morning
On my drive to work I pass
him.
He stops, looks at my eyes, and smiles
a big, genuine old-man smile.
And he waves right at me.

Each morning
On my drive to work I pass
him.
He waves like that to ...

Times online full article: http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle5418361.ece

Certain seminal works which were published before the Second World War but which have had a major influence since the war were set aside. That list would certainly include:

Karl Barth: Credo
Marc Bloch: Feudal Society (La Societe feodale)
Martin Buber: I and Thou (Ich und Du)
Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (Uber den ...