i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife

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i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI 30 dogs, 20 m...

Word origins

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The French word bouquiniste, meaning a book or a little book is pronounced “Boo-Ki-Nest and from that, we get the term for a dealer in old...

But in reading great literature /Quite from C.S. Lewis

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But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.                                                         ...

Word origins

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The word Opusculum comes from Latin, where it serves as the diminutive form of the noun opus, meaning "work." In English, opus...

Good fiction creates empathy.

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life...

I stood under whatever type of tree and without aiming, shot upwards, interesting results.

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I think I walked in on a murder

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Words origins

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Sashay: From the French word chassé, meaning  "to chase." The word worked its way into English, badly mispronounced as Sashay.  ...

Words (That's F. Scott Fitzgerald in the film below)

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Pelf: noun: Money or wealth, especially when acquired in a dishonorable manner. From Old French pelfre (booty), which also gave us the wor...

Word origins : Interesting.............

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Word origins Polyglot

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Polyglot:   Speaking or writing several languages: multilingual. The prefix poly comes from Greek and means "many" or "mul...

Romero and Juliet/ Well that's a different point of view...

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A poem by Richard Brautigan

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Kafka’s Hat  With the rain falling surgically against the roof, I ate a dish of ice cream that looked like Kafka’s hat...

Take notice/ Kurt Vonnegut

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Despite his success later in life, Kurt Vonnegut marched through some awful times in his life, including being forced to search and bury t...

Why the world needs editors

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What passes for a death match between labradors

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Poet Li-Young Lee: From Blossoms

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Li-Young Lee (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfa...

This is what greets me every morning without fail......

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Dear God

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A poem: Yesterday

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Yesterday W. S. Merwin, 1927 – 2019 My friend says I was not a good son you understand I say yes I understand he says I did ...