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Comment Brasington's Ninth Law · posted 2007 by
Riskable
This aphorism is actually "Brasington's Ninth Law". Just thought I'd point it out.
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Comment Thorns · posted 2007 by
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Tristan Eggener is the ABSOLUTE MOST pathetic loser on the face of this earth. He does not deserve to breath
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Comment SOMETHING OF MYSELF · posted 2007 by
RonPrice
I came across several aphoristic phrases in Kipling's autobiography. I post the following prose-poem linking Kipling to the history of the evolution of the values and beliefs-my religion--in my own life.
English poet and novelist, Rudyard Kipling died on January 18th 1936. A "new hour had struck in the history"1 of the Baháí Faith. A new stage was set, a stage synchronizing with the deepening gloom in the world. That stage was the devising, the inauguration, of a plan for the systematic spread of the Faith in the United States beginning in May 1936. The prosecution of that Plan began in April/May 1937. In March 1937 Kipling's autobiography Something Of Myself was published. The extent to which Kiplings description of his life failed to match what actually happened is extraordinary.
In the first sentence of his autobiography Kipling said he was dealt a set of cards and he had to play these cards during his life "as they came." I could very well have opened my own autobiography published sixty-six years later with that same line. In the last chapter of his book he said that writing to him had always been "a physical pleasure."2 Writing became that to me by degrees, sensibly and insensibly. A preamble stage existed in the years of my childhood and adolescence: 1944-1962. From 1962/3 to 1972/3 I now see as stage 1 of my literary life; 1972/3-1982/3 was stage 2; 1982/3-1992/3 was stage 3 and 1992/3-2002/3 was stage 4. I have just begun stage 5: 2002/3 to the present. That sense of physical pleasure Kipling described did not enter my sensory emporium until stage 2. -Ron Price with thanks to 1Shoghi Effendi, "Cablegram October 26, 1935," Messages To America, Wilmeete, 1947, p.5. and 2Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself, Macmillan, London, 1937.
I came to the pleasure of ink, by degrees 36 years after you had left this mortal coil and that Plan had made an epochal shift. That pleasure served to keep me inside myself as it did you those many years--you ...
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Comment Synchronicity and TS Eliot · posted 2007 by
RonPrice
SYNCHRONICITY
To students of twentieth-century modernism, 1971 was the year when Valerie Eliot published a facsimile edition of The Waste Lands pre-publication manuscripts. 1971 was a significant year in my own life for it was the year I left Canada and moved to Australia. Thirty-six years later it looked like I would lay my bones in that vast dry dog-biscuit of a continent. The publication of the pre-publication manuscripts of The Wasteland was an event which invited new accounts of the poems genetics and fresh assessments of how those might bear on our understanding of the poem. My move to Australia invited a different set of life studies and interpretations of my life-narrative and as the decades advanced fresh assessments of their meaning. -Ron Price with thanks to Valerie Eliot, ed., T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound, Harcourt Brace, NY, 1971.
One year later, in 1972, I started teaching high school in South Australia. That same year Hugh Kenner and Grover Smith published two essays which, while differing sharply in premises and procedures, reached a consensus that Part III, The Fire Sermon, was the earliest portion of the poem to have been written, probably around midsummer 1921, followed first by Parts I and II, then by IV and V, the latter completed in December 1921. I was always impressed, at least since I first studied Eliot in 1963 and then taught his poetry in 1988, 25 years later, at the remarkable synchronicity between the writing of The Wasteland and a crucial stage in the institutionalization of charisma in the Baháí Faith associated with the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha. -Ron Price with thanks to Hugh Kenner, The Urban Apocalypse, in Eliot in His Time: Essays on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the The Wasteland, ed. A. Walton Litz, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973, pp. 2349.
By 1988 when I studied this poem to teach it at matriculation le...
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Comment Winston Churchill on the Web · posted 2006 by
kristopher9876
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Comment AN INTRODUCTION TO MYOPIA · posted 2006 by
Anand
hello, One can simply understand myopia or near sightedness as a disease in which person is unable to see the distant object, but can see the closer objects. In other words, light rays from distant source are unable to form an image over the retina. However, he is able to see the objects in his close vicinity.
The people suffering from myopia have problem to see the distant objects but can see the near objects. This disease is supposed to be carried away from generation to generation. Myopic patients are found to have steep shaped cornea, or have bigger eyes. Myopia generally strikes between the ages of eight to fifteen years. Children suffering from this disease find it difficult to see the black board from back seats of their classroom. After the passage of time when the myopic child grow up this disease become much prominent and at the age of adult hood becomes stagnant. to read the complete article please vist the http://www.articleboom.com and health and fitness category. thank you
Comment An Ideal Office Chair · posted 2006 by
Anand
Hello,
Prologue
We daily go to our office and sit on our official chair. How much thought you have given to your office chair? I doubt that it is not sufficient. If the answer is yes, then be conscious about it because you spend a good amount of time with your chair. Now you are little bit carefree or say careless about it but later on you will feel like pulling your hairs for not listening to the right advice.
An ideal chair would be that can be adjusted according to the persons physical size. It will have backrests, amendable heights, seat pans and arm rests. Following tips will give you an idea how to look for a suitable chair.
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Comment Historical Background of Quilling · posted 2006 by
Anand
Hello,
Paper quilling is an ancient art, followed by many past ages. It is popular as paper filigree. The term quilling was taken from the feather quill. It was used to roll out the narrow pieces of paper. It has a deep relation in its history of invention with the discovery of paper in china. The first representatives of the quilling process were the associates of spiritual organizations. Gradually, it started spreading its wings to wards the other countries. With the passage of time, it became an important part of common persons life. Read the complete article plese vist the www.articleboom.com and in art and literature dir.
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Comment Art and Literature · posted 2006 by
Leonid Sukhorukov
* Any fool can write a book - a wise man knows how to sell it. (A book of aphorisms 'All About Everything' by Leonid S.Sukhorukov,UK, 2005)
