atmosphere | atmosphere
Mar.21.2013
Someone once commented to me that the problem with Shakespeare was that he wrote in cliches. I let that pass.
Now we come to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, and in 2013, it looks like he writes in cliches, too, but of course there are differences.
Shakespeare's...
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Jan.22.2013
I'm always on the look out for a great quote. I saw a wonderful one yesterday (there was no attribute; else I would cite it).
The quote said this:
"Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your...
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Feb.05.2012
I use the word "truth" in my title and the article is dealing with "facts". I think the "truth" of reality is made up of "facts".
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What happened in Vegas
By John D'Agata and Jim Fingal
From The Lifespan of a Fact, ...
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Dec.12.2011
familiarizing atmosphere my eyes closed i dare move forward, ever so slowly ....
music caresses me, all over, like a lover swirling ...
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Mar.02.2011
I'm going to be stuck in the Arctic longer than I expected as I start this next *thriller*. And I suspect I will end there (literally) and poke my nose in more than once. I don't quite have the arrow-straight plot of my preceding thriller, though it is still more plotted than my usual writing....
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Dec.09.2010
The sky and ocean have blurred into one atmospheric mystery, and the fragrance of kelp and fish in atomized salt water lingers without moving. There is no breeze, no motion, only living things exhaling delicate puffs of moisture, invisible and indiscrete. The very ocean itself has exhaled into...
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Jun.05.2009
I was misty-eyed at President Barack Obama's courageous attempt to create an atmosphere where peace can begin, to get the Muslim world at large to understand that we can have different views -- both commonalities and differences -- and still get along. It seems so simple yet it appears to be so...
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