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J.C.’s 2023 Year in Books
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Tulip Spring, to D. © JC Milne
This morning's poem was a belated anniversary gift to my husband (who brought me red roses and dark chocolates!). It obviously refers to more than tulips!
Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
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Tulip Spring, to D. © J C Milne
Rich banners of an army declare this spring,
blood-red, cup-gold, sun-yellow, all flung
brilliant in the breeze, bold bright sheen
a tapestry of delight, a shout, wave, broad
ripple in their worked hostelry of earth,
fo Read more of this blog post »
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"Even a great writer can write a bad novel. At least previously Banville was hiding behind a pseudonym when playing a detective, this time he decides to hide no longer.
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"Okay, that's clear. This is not a pipe. Then, what is it ? Is it a bird ? Nooooo ! Is it a plane ? Nooooo ! It is ... Chubby, how did you call it, a "twist "? Now, seriously. How far can representation go in capturing the essence of an object ? We ha"
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"This strikes me as a relatively anecdotal portrayal of life in Afghanistan - it zooms in on the behaviour/fate of various individuals and I presume that the author wrote about what she observed. That she sees the world differently is obvious but some"
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"The French word “essai” means to try or test something. It can also mean a trial. In fact one can say that I tried out 107 essays spanning some 1300 pages over a trial of a year and a half. It was worth it.
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Ian wrote: "J.C. wrote: "An interesting find, Ian, and a respectful review. I have his "The Prince in the Heather" (non-fiction), which was a parental
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Glad it appeals, John. I've only read one Iris Murdoch and she's not top of my TBR list. Watch your back with those trees!
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“I have always been a man of peace. I have always denounced the man who strove to tamper with an oppressed people by any appeal to physical force. I have always said that moral force was the degree of deliberation in each man's mind which told him when submission was a duty or resistance not a crime; and that a true application of moral force would effect every change, but in case it should fail, physical force would come to its aid like an electric shock — and no man could prevent it; but that he who advised or attempted to marshal it would be the first to desert it at the moment of danger. God forbid that I should wish to see my country plunged into horrors of physical revolution. I wish her to win her liberties by peaceful means.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
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“Were women being confined yet again to that alabaster pedestal so beloved of the Victorian age, when Woman as better-than-man gave men a license to be gleefully and enjoyably worse than women, while all the while proclaiming that they couldn’t help it because it was their nature? Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“The great French historian Ernest Renan in the late 1880s denied that a nation was based on ethnicity and language or blood-and-soil nationality. His argument was that a nation consists of people who have a collective shared sentiment and that sentiment is based on myth and history and a series of symbols and markers of identity. There is a constant referendum going as to whether that sentiment still exists in the union. Renan’s concept of a nation is that it can be ephemeral; it’s not there forever, it is not a permanency as it varies according to circumstances. This is a very intriguing parallel with what’s going on in the UK today.”
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etherealfire wrote: "Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3"I'm glad you accepted!
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Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3
Thank you, Beata - I look forward to sharing books with you.Jeanne.
Happy to be your GR Friend, JC, and thanks for a lovely request :))
