Chipping away at literature, history, and other interests, whilst navigating stormy seas and a lee shore. #WhitmanWednesday ๐พ
Locus: New England & the abyss of MECFS / FQAD
๐ค๏ธSol Omnibus Lucet
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Flora and fauna on my wife's walk today...
โข Ray Bradbury on how to survive and thrive as a writer, or other creative person, in the modern world (interview with James Day, CUNY TV, January 21, 1974.)
โข Photo - from my wife's walk.
#WhitmanWednesday ๐พ
To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast...
I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
High, high above the restโ
To all cut off before their time,
Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
Quench'd by an early death.
Walt Whitman
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I think it the necessary thing โ I almost pray for it โ that each age should have its hero.
Walt Whitman
๐จJames Gale Tyler (1855-1931) "Ship Under Moonlight"
โ๏ธFrom Melville's John Marr and Other Sailors (1888). Melville published just twenty-five first edition copies, at his own expense, intended for family and friends. Later editions were not published until the 1920s, well after Melville's death.
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Even though the world can try to crush you and put you down with facts, you break up through the concrete and say: Damn it all, I'm a blade of grass and I will survive!
Ray Bradbury
#haiku ๐๏ธ
Spring cacophony
Mowers drown Mourning coos โ we
Long for winter's hush
#MelvilleMonday
On the wilds of midnight watersโ
Foemen looming through the spray;
Do yet your gangway lanterns, streaming,
Vainly strive to pierce below,
When, tilted from the slant plank gleaming,
A brother you see to darkness go?
- Melville (from John Marr)
