Friends of literature.....

[moonfleet]

Don't know this paint from him, but if Billy is the nickname of William...

I must add he's not totaly white



Moon.



P.S: What is the name of the book then ??

[Freddie Freeloader]

name='moonfleet']

P.S: What is the name of the book then ??

Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer



(from which this painting is taken).

[moonfleet]

name='Freddie Freeloader']Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer



(from which this painting is taken).

BRAVO!!



- Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.

And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.



....it's just beautiful.



Moon.

[GRAEME]

name='moonfleet'] I must add he's not totaly white

What does this actually mean, Moony?

[moonfleet]

name='GRAEME']What does this actually mean, Moony?

Blake & Black .........it's a french joke, without tonic accent



Moon.

[moonfleet]

New Love



With these dire portents

we'll learn the language

of knees, shoulder blades,

chins but not the first floor up,

shin bones, the incomprehensible

belly buttons of childhood,

heels and the soles of our feet,

spines and neckbones,

risque photos of the tender

inside of elbows, tumescent fingers

draw the outlines of lost parts

on the wall; bottom of pubis

Delphic, unaprochable as Jupiter,

a memory worn as the first love

we knew, ourselves a test pattern

become obsession : this love

in the plague years - we used to kiss

a mirror to see if we were dead.

Now we relearn the futurevas we learned

to walk, as a baby grabs its toes,

tilts backward, rocking . Tonight I'll touch

your wrist and in a year perhaps grind

my blind eye's socket against your hipbone.

With all this death, behind our backs,

the moon has become the moon again.





...Who wrote this ???

[Freddie Freeloader]

name='moonfleet']



...and in a year perhaps grind

my blind eye's socket against your hipbone.

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday Big Jim, the Mozart of the Plains....



Happy Birthday to you.



xx

[moonfleet]

name='Freddie Freeloader']Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday Big Jim, the Mozart of the Plains....



Happy Birthday to you.



xx

Yes, that's from the great Jim Harrison (photo upon, on the left)



Is it really his birthday ??



Moon.

[Freddie Freeloader]

name='moonfleet']

Is it really his birthday ??



Moon.

Yesterday was indeed Jim Harrison's seventy first birthday.



I thought that was what prompted your quotation.

[moonfleet]

name='Freddie Freeloader']Yesterday was indeed Jim Harrison's seventy first birthday.



I thought that was what prompted your quotation.

Hello Freddie



I n fact I didn't know it was his birthday two days ago !!!



Strange coincidence !! ....or is it the magical of Internet ( if there is any), anyway :



Happy birthday Mr Harrison, wherever you are, in the American mountains or in a good restaurant in France !!



Moon.

[moonfleet]

Try this one ....



" Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan

For making a separate sally;

And fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,

A dismal and desolate valley "

[Steve Crook]

name='moonfleet']Try this one ....



" Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan

For making a separate sally;

And fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,

A dismal and desolate valley "

But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred

It had chosen the very same place

Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,

The disgust that appeared in his face.



Fit the Fifth - The Beaver's Lesson

From "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.



Steve

[moonfleet]

name='Steve Crook']But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred

It had chosen the very same place

Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,

The disgust that appeared in his face.



Fit the Fifth - The Beaver's Lesson

From "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.



Steve

Steve, you seem to know your classicals !!



Moon.

[Steve Crook]

name='moonfleet'] Steve, you seem to know your classicals !!



Moon.

Have you ever read Sylvie and Bruno? That's the strangest one that he wrote



Steve

[moonfleet]

name='Steve Crook']Have you ever read Sylvie and Bruno? That's the strangest one that he wrote



Steve

No, I don't, I just only know "Alice..", "The Hunting ..." and some letters he wrote to his child friends ....



Moon.

[moonfleet]

Keeping a link (hum), who wrote this book debut ( to complicate a little, it's in French, don't got the translation ...)



"Dans mon reve, j'étais debout au milieu d'Oak Street, par une nuit noire. Les réverbères étaient éteints; seul un clair de lune pale scintillait sur l'énorme épée que je faisais tournoyer au-dessus de ma tete tandis que le Jabberwock rampait vers moi. Il se trainait sur le pavé, agitant ses ailes et bandant ses muscles pour l'assaut final; ses serres griffaient la pierre en crépitant comme le clavier d'une linotype. Alors, à ma stupéfaction, il parla :

- Doc ! Eh ! Doc ! Réveillez-vous."





( With circumflexe accent upon : reve, pale et tete, Idon't know why, but I can't get them )



Moon.

[GRAEME]

Night of the Jabberwock by Fred Brown

[Freddie Freeloader]

name='GRAEME']Night of the Jabberwock by Fred Brown

Puh-leeeeze ....Fredric, if you don't mind.



What next ? Billy Shakespeare , Chas Dickens and Geoff Chaucer ?



Fredric Foul Odour

[moonfleet]

name='GRAEME']Night of the Jabberwock by Fred Brown

Yeah Graeme , you've got it !! Bravo .



PS: Fredric Brown is one of my favourite author ever.



(impressed !) Moon.

[GRAEME]

name='Freddie Freeloader']Puh-leeeeze ....Fredric, if you don't mind.



What next ? Billy Shakespeare , Chas Dickens and Geoff Chaucer ?



Fredric Foul Odour

Er...



I read some of that stuff and this guy is so out of that league..



Unless of course you are he, in which case I loved it!



And since you ain't dead you're not so I thought it was pretentious drivel.