"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
SIX out of five stars!! (That's not easy but it's not the Math issue. Read further.) [CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] Wed. 10/22/2014: … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2008: Ways Of Learning
[Categories: Literature, Reading, Writing, Fiction, Mystery, Book Review] Wow! This is GOOD! Five stars, bearing in mind I've given everyone from Chester Nez through Jodi Picoult to Ayn Rand the same on their individual merit, not as compared to each other. [Click to zoom.] From an author with whom I wasn't familiar until recently, I was … Continue reading Fast Track by John DeDakis, book review
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [All snapshots (and they're only that) poorly taken with an iPad2 from this issue of Lapham's Quarterly. Sorry photo people! Click to zoom.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2011: Celebrity
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] My marathon pre-view/re-view of the Book of Nature issue finally comes to a conclusion. Will our coexistence with … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. IV and last, Terra Incognita
Now for something completely different as ‘they’ say, here is a great story by an excellent writer who lives far, far away from my old mountain home.
I want to paint a mind picture. A picture of Africa. I’ll splash the broad brush-strokes across the canvas, but I’m hoping you will fill in the detail.
Picture a vlei with a pan at the bottom. Giraffe awkwardly drinking.
Hippo grunt in the early morning. Yawn. Zebra graze peacefully with wildebeeste, close to the pan. Perhaps there is a crocodile in the water, I don’t know. Paint in his nostrils, two little bumps above the water, if you wish. There are birds. Lots of them. I don’t know their names and its not important, really. I’d just throw dots and slashes across the canvas for them. Next there is a pole rail and a blue, blue swimming pool, a green lawn and lots of little round hardwood tables with cute umbrellas. Huge acacia thorn trees with flat tops tower. Its easy to fill in those, that flat top is…
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[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. "...to him that knocketh it shall be opened." (Matt. 7:8 -KJV)] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] My marathon L.Q. pre-view/re-view continues. Complementary … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. III, Gardens of Earthly Delight
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. Search Archives for back issues.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and see camera info in many cases.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and avid readers. I gently … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. II, Howling Wilderness 2.
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. Search Archives on that page for back issues and View Contents.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, see camera info in most cases.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. II, Howling Wilderness 1.
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. See Archives on that page for back issues.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and avid readers. I gently chide you if you do not proceed. As I have finished … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. I
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. See Archives on that page for back issues.] [Links to excerpts lead to L.Q. free postings or invitations to subscribe.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and avid readers. I … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2014: Youth, pt. IV and Last, Notes on Coming Of Age
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. See Archives on that page for back issues.] [Links to excerpts lead to L.Q. free postings or invitations to subscribe.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and avid readers. I … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2014: Youth, pt. III, Notes on Growing Pains
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] My reading of this issue continues. As noted in partial review one About Money is becoming one of my favorite issues of Lapham's Quarterly. "Money, to be sure, of itself is of no use, for its only use is … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2008: About Money, partial review two and last
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] Money. Isn't that what it's all about? The currency of modern day survival? I would be hard-pressed post-apocalypse to snare, skin, cook, and eat a rabbit but I have money to buy bread. Of course post-apoc the money … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2008: About Money, partial review one
(From p. 84, copyright Getty Images.) I'm finished in that I have read the entire publication once and the first third or so a second time in an attempt at a more thorough understanding. I read Lapham's intro, Word Order, about five times in that attempt. I'm grateful there isn't a quiz. This would be … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2012: Means of Communication. Finished!
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