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Shades of the opening overhead letterboxed shot of Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia

(Stevenson didn’t make the cut)   They picked Tom Sawyer over Huck Finn (called the Great American Novel by many) and left out: Robinson Crusoe (probably for politically reasons) Candide (too witty, satirical, and ironic?) Madame Bovary (too mature and risque?) … Continue reading →

Trump. A one-man wrecking crew on NFL anthem-kneeling. Caused all but 2 of the owners to cave in, by making the race protests a fake nationalistic, patriotism issue. Trump has divided black and white America more than any other president … Continue reading →

love and sex is complete abandonment with a mutual giving and receiving intimacy. It is like an axe breaking open a frozen inner sea.

At the family reunion Aunt Agnes sits across from me swilling her pilsener and asking the time. She bums cigarettes from Uncle Al to wear in her chiselled lips– her death-mask face of granite bone. Reptilian eyes size us up … Continue reading →

viewable on PBS and online is the first, long-overdue tv program on books since the well-done Great Books series hosted by Donald Sutherland and PBS’s great Voices and Visions series back in the ’80s. Well, it’s about time that something … Continue reading →

another innocent kid or ‘beloved’ pet negligently left in a locked vehicle fries to death. “An eye for an eye’ justice had its purposes and reasons. I would certainly understand the argument for leaving a dumb-ass parent in the same … Continue reading →