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• REJECTIONS ARE NOTHING NEW

  February 1, 2010

  • SPERNO, ERGO SUM!    Lavinia Arrogantia, the hot new agent at Libri ‘R’ Nobis, the largest literary agency in Rome, had just about finished processing the weekly post. As was her practice, she worked diligently from the moment the post was delivered each Thursday morning, separating the packets of unsolicited manuscripts into two piles until her desk was cleared, usually before the day was ...
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• GRAHAM GREENE'S "THE COMEDIANS

  January 28, 2010

  • GRAHAM GREENE’S “THE COMEDIANS”“Set in Haiti, where terror rides and death comes frequently and swiftly   in the night, it is a story of love and adventure, hope and disillusion.”In 1791, a self-educated slave in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Dominique led a successful revolution against Napoleon’s France. Inspired by the French Revolution of 1789 and prompted by the writings ...
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• A WIZARD IS A WIZARD, AFTER ALL

  October 15, 2009

  • A WIZARD IS A WIZARD AFTER ALL!Dorothy: If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises!Wizard: Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you an audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now! Oh! The Great Oz has ...
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• LEST WE FORGET - JULY 27, 1953

  August 12, 2009

  •      Drawing by Burris Jenkins, Jr.On the Cease Fire in Korea LEST WE FORGET - JULY 27, 1953by JACK DEENEY 1.Four specters rose from morning’s mist Each held a weapon in his fist.Four soldiers, tattered khaki clad,Four who’d given all they had. 2.Four times a year they gathered roundThe Unknowns’ Tomb, their hallowed ground,This ...
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• YESTERDAY PEOPLE - THE CHAPPAQUA HILLARYBILLIES (April 9, 2008))

  August 29, 2008

  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008 LYRICS OF A LOWBROW (with apologies to Robert W. Service) THE CHAPPAQUA HILLARYBILLIES I.Twinkle, twinkle, little tartAt the White House, played her part.Made the master moan and groanWhile they played with each his own,Just a weekend matinee.But, ere Sunday morn gave wayShe’d have to go 'cause heMust go to church with Hillary. II.With ...
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