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in the history of the English novel: “It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”–spoken by the about-to-be-guillotined Sydney … Continue reading →

In the fall we drift along the tree-lined streets of unfamiliar places. Leaves cover everything: sleepy cars and houses sidewalks and our coats. My son drags his foot beside the curb like a street-cleaner but even he admits we could … Continue reading →

Hello Katzville! ………………………………. (Give us this day our daily major overhaul and deconstruction. Permanence and stability ‘no longer live here’.) News item: Katz reveals new downtown skyscraper and other development in Edmonton ……………….. note/Sept 27: Katzville as a term has only … Continue reading →

(epigraph) And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night– We talked between the Rooms– Until the Moss had reached our lips– And covered up–our names– –Emily Dickinson, excerpt #449, “I Died for Beauty”

This odd 1959 movie was one of two popular movies about the famous 1924 “Crime-of-the Century” Loeb-Leopold thrill-killing . (The other was Rope directed by Hitchcock, which focused on the suspenseful lead-up to the discovery of the murder victim’s body.) Compulsion … Continue reading →

“We fear the thing we want the most.”–Dr. Robert Anthony “Fear is the prison of the heart.”–Anon “Of all the passions, fear weakens judgement most.”–Cardinal De Retz There is no greater self-imposed limitation than fear itself. Fear limits us from … Continue reading →

is easily the most limited and limiting factor in people’s lives. No fear is worse than irrational, ego-based, self-imposed fear. “A man can do all things if he will.”–Leon Battisa Alberti (as demonstrated by Roger Ebert’s life after his jaw … Continue reading →

“The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement./Nature always produces individuals.”–Lydia Maria Child, Letters from New York–second series (1845) ‘Connection’ is a desirable aspect potentially achievable with the dead and living, and via the real, fictional, and … Continue reading →

This 1955 suspense classic directed by the great William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) stars Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March. (Today, of course, if remade, it would be drenched with swearing and sexual situations.) As suspenseful as a good Hitchcock … Continue reading →

The King in the Car Park, U.K. tv documentary. Humorous host Simon Farnaby joins Ricardian (Richard III society member) Philippa Langley on her quest to find/dig up long-lost body of Richard III in Leicester. Langley has a hunch about an … Continue reading →