Category Archives: Books

Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

February 4, 2013 – 10:22 pm

I inherited THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE from my grandmother’s library. This macabre image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was illustrations rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh from THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. I loved Edgar Allan Poe’s works, especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of [...]

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Jane Birkin on Proust

January 27, 2013 – 2:19 pm

My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. – Jane Birkin Personally I wasn’t able to read past the opening line of À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” I never [...]

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Decisions Decisions Decisions

October 18, 2012 – 9:09 pm

Here’s a quandry from Big Al Harlow of Pattaya fame, author of the Amazon-Kindle book WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. Please read the entire thing for the correct impact. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting [...]

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Click My Heels

June 8, 2012 – 2:02 pm

After her wondrous adventures over the rainbow in the Kingdom of Oz, Dorothy Gale clicked both heels of the ruby slippers to return to Kansas and she was quick to tell her family and friends, “There’s no place like home.” Kansas despite the tornados has always been considered the heartland of America and the prairie [...]

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No Bookee No Fuckee

June 8, 2012 – 1:44 pm

Throughout the century the Vatican has maintained an Index of Prohibited Books comprised of proscribed authors such as Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Galileo. Nazi Germany extolled the SA and SS and [...]

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