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George Bernard Shaw was one of the major playwrights of the 20th century. A number of his plays have been turned into movies including Major Barbara, The Devil’s Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, Androcles and the Lion, … Continue reading →

will be next to get an apology from Justin and a big payout as will all the prisoners in solitary confinement. Their constitutional rights have been violated. I thought prisoners who nastily killed people and were deemed dangerous offenders have … Continue reading →

“…Then all at once, he was standing there So sure of himself, his head in the air My heart was breaking, which one would it be? Then you turned around and walked away with me!” –the concluding crescendo of Roy … Continue reading →

Used to watch on lunch-hours on our newly acquired black and white tv set. First tv series that fired my young male romantic imagination.

(Author in his educator daze. Benevolent manipulation and control?) In 1972, I remember realizing, about halfway through my third year u modern American Literature course, that most, if not all of the selections, were about the theme of manipulation and control–a reflection … Continue reading →

(from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age) -Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. -Serious reading is above all an agency of self-making. -Syntactic masonry is already a dying … Continue reading →

“If you want a red rose,” said the Tree, “you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood. You must sing to me with your breast against a thorn.” …………………. “…for only a … Continue reading →

Dean Morrison McKenzie (on right) Friend, Poet, Spirit of the Great Heart (d. Feb. 4, 2013) The Gifts of Vision and Consciousness ………………… Above picture, fall 1990 at Southgate, Woodward’s Books. Spiritus reading to the Saturday afternoon throngs at an … Continue reading →

(Terry Fox’s runners) The baby and young child start life as gifts, unbeknownst to themselves. They are what they are, naturally, as much as a beautiful, undisturbed landscape or animal in the wild. Consciousness is relatively undeveloped through the early … Continue reading →

of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.” –Charles Peguy