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    What Are You Reading

    Orientalism, Edward W Said This 25th Anniversary Edition reprises Said's life theme that the West isn't best, and East beats its own snare drum, different rhythm, different rhyme. That the orient marches to a different drum has long puzzled Academe, a self-inflicted malady that tickles the...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Carol. Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are cast coupled in 1950s Manhattan. An elegant, most enticing lesbian love stricken thunderbolt right to the heart. :)
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Let me guess... 1.) The Rape 2.)Death-accidental, or suicide T.E. Lawrence as did Charles Gordon, cut a dashing figure, and while the former wasn't as prolific an author, with the help of Lowell Thomas, Lawrence was revealed to the world. Also, like Gordan, he is presumed to have lived a...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Ein Apfel pro Tag halt den Doctor fern...oder so heist es. ;)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Initially drawn to that buck ass-no-time-in-grade draftee dumbass who thinks his Uncle Mister Samuel is going to listen to any grousing, he just bought his ass assignment as an 11 Bravo-20 Rifleman. I'll let it go instead of arguing any jack leg lawyer particulars since Maj. Namm and Ms Muller...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    POST SCRIPT Just a follow up from last nite son. A man has to follow his own star, but you will get further in life by also adhering to the pursuit of excellence. As my prior posts show, I've had to contend with difficulties and not to deny or diminish current economic trend, opportunity...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    TIME IS IMMATERIAL TO PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE Time is immaterial to pursuing excellence. I met college expenses by the GI Bill, tutoring, outside employment, writing term papers for the rich kids I met inside the University of Illinois-Chicago typing room, and finished off the last two years...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Angie added spice to all the gunpowder. ^ Love that gal. The walled in jail fortress holding Claude Akien and enemy phalanx outside calaboose disguised Ace-upsleeve inherent threat of murder should jail be imminent due overrun, etc etc. And Big Jack tossed Angie's nylon stocking out the winder...
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    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Nostradamus inked his prophetic quatrains in 16th Century France; often scripted depictive scenes as visualized to convey his impression of certain events; here, he names his subject, which exceptioned his usual practice. And as Chancellor of Germany Hitler led the slaughter.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    In reading this thread the level of loss sustained by Germany is stunning. The flower of their male gender horribly sacrificed recalls British novelist Barbara Cartland's remark after touring Allied First World War cemeteries at Verdun, 'A generation of love perished here.' Virginia Nichols'...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Needed a film to take my mind off Emeline and found Manchester By the Sea, which unfolds coastal New England, current times; Irish Catholic clan issues, premature cardiac death older brother, younger sibling forced to accept guardianship minor nephew, take on some responsibility and grow in the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    ^ Gina Lollabrigida, hands down as she appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Esmerelda. Backed by Tina Louise, Kim Novack. Linda Darnell. And Shay Knuth, PLAYBOY playmate 1967 or 1968. Also, Dawn Welles too. I was always torn between Ginger and Mary Ann.;)
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Her face, like heaven, entice thee to view Her countless glory, which desert must gain; ...because thin eye Presumes to reach... Yon princes, like thyself, Drawn by report, adventurous by desire, Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale, That without covering, save yon fields of...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I chanced upon YouTube fare the other day and came across a strange but true tale of cruel accidental fate as played out in the nineteenth-twentieth century in New England, something out of Melville or Nathaniel Hawthorne, or perhaps more suited Washington Irving. The Sin of Our Mothers occurs...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Now a retired Irish poet scoundrel who blessed or cursed corporate sartorial standard by avail Sapphic-to-Shakespearean poetic verse to ladies wed and maiden indiscriminate, I attest the blush of the rose is envied deep red wine and the blaze Sun. :);):D
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. Shakespeare--Measure for Measure V; I Those are law books shelved in Mason's office, where scripture is writ for lawyers, come hell or high water. I've not...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^ Robert, a resemblance to Chuck Norris. Opthalmic surgery last year knocked me off my saddle, and with Covid sparking, all elective surgery cancelled, and, what not kitchen sink tossed in for good measure, I let the beard grow.... Santa Claus stared back in the mirror; shades of Shakesperean...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I guess Mr & Mrs Schwartz were not quite a Pericles and Aspasia....
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I dare speak it to myself, it is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. Cymbeline IV; I :eek::eek::eek:;):):):)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    ^ I've a gut instinct that consumes what little common sense I possess, if indeed any at all, and I firmly believe those two were meant for each other. And their differences aside, my incurable romantic insufferable self won't let go. I offered a Jewish girl some advice when she confided she...

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