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Carl Sandburg (1876-1967)
Carl Sandberg (1878-1967)
Much of his poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."
Sandburg moved to Chicago in 1912, after living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he had served as secretary to Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor. Harriet Monroe, a fellow resident of Chicago, had recently founded Poetry at around this time. Monroe liked and encouraged Sandburg's plain-speaking free verse style, strongly reminiscent of Walt Whitman. The 1916 Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature.
The Chicago Poems, and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920) represent Sandburg's attempts to found a U.S. version of social realism, writing expansive verse in praise of American agriculture and industry. All of these tendencies are manifest in Chicago itself. Then, as now, Chicago was a hub of commodities trading, and a key financial center for agricultural markets. The city was also a center of the meat-packing industry, and an important railroad hub; these industries are also mentioned in the poem.
CHICAGO, CHILD OF THE ROMANS, Grass, Cool Tombs
Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw , Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man is one of Shaw's earliest plays. It was first produced in London in 1894. Set in Bulgaria in 1885, a soldier barely escapes from battle during wartime and finds himself hiding in the daughter's room of the most prominent family in town. Her impending marriage plans are thrown into pandemonium. In a war between Bulgaria and Serbia, the Serbian soldiers are fleeing. A Serbian soldier surprises Raina, the heroine, by entering her bedroom for shelter. The Serbian officer is a Swiss mercenary soldier fighting on the Serbian side, his name is Captain Bluntschli. Raina Petkoff had been dreaming of her fianc' Sergius; about how valiantly he had led the Bulgarians to victory. Bluntschli is a soldier who prefers a supply of chocolates to bullets when he goes to the front. Chocolate Cream Soldier
Raina Petkoff: Raina, the heroine of the play, is the only child of Major Petkoff and Catherine Petkoff. She is a "romantic" and had romantic notions of love and war.
Catherine Petkoff: Catherine Petkoff, Raina's mother, is a middle-aged affected woman, who wishes to pass off as a Viennese lady. She is "imperiously energetic" and good-looking. Major Petkoff, her husband, is a wealthy soldier.
Sergius: Sergius is handsome, as a romantic hero ought to be, has a good position in the army and supposed to be brave. He is supposed to be in love with Raina but flirts with Louka (the family servant).
Bluntschli: Bluntschli is a Swiss professional soldier fighting for the Serbs (against Bulgaria). He believes that it is
better to be armed with chocolates than with ammunition on the battlefield. In contrast to Sergius "he is of middling stature and undistinguished appearance". He is energetic and carries himself like a soldier.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley was considered with his friend Lord Byron a pariah for his life style. He drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era. Like many poets of his day, Shelley employed mythological themes and figures from Greek poetry that gave an exalted tone for his visions
To Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To Wordsworth
By 1816 Wordsworth had abandoned the radicalism of his youth and sought spiritual rather than political remedies. Shelley utilizes Wordsworth's favorite form, the sonnet, and interweaves several critical allusions to Wordsworth's early poetry, including 'Intimations' (line 9) and London, 1802. (The poem is all a single stanza, but I wanted it to fit on the page!)
Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know
That things depart which never may return:
Childhood and youth, friendship, and love's first glow,
Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.
These common woes I feel. One loss is mine
Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.
Thou wert as a lone star whose light did shine
On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:
Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood
Above the blind and battling multitude:
In honoured poverty thy voice did weave
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,
Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.
Mount Blanc, Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mount Blanc, Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
The highest peak in Europe, was the pinnacle of reaching the sublime. Inspired to look inward by the sight of the river valley, Shelley has a sudden and clear understanding of the workings of his mind: his mind is involved in a constant exchange of information with his environment. Shelley stresses that his mind "passively" partakes in this exchange, implying that he is, in some respects at least, merely a vehicle for the reception and transmission of information. This theme that the poetic mind acts as a passive receiver and transmitter is recurrent in Romantic poetry, most notably in the motif of the Eolian harp, a kind of wind-powered musical instrument, used by Coleridge in a poem named for the instrument and "Dejection, An Ode," as well as by Shelley himself in "Ode to the West Wind" (Norton p. 331).
The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark--now glittering-no", reflecting gloom
Now lending splendor, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings 5
Of waters-with a sound but half its own,
Such as a feeble brook will oft assume
In the wild woods, among the mountains lone,
Where waterfalls around it leap forever,
Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river 10
Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves...
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Tells of Shelley's decision to devote his life to the pursuit of ideals. 'Intellectual' refers to the ideal Platonic spirit apprehended by the mind, over the faint and fleeting information of the senses.
Broken up into 12 line stanzas.
THE AWFUL shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us, visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening,
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,
Like memory of music fled,
Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. (...)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Greek name for Ramses II. (14 line poem)
I met a traveler from an antique land -- My name is Ozymandias, King of Kinds: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
Actually in terza rima (interlocking rhyme).
Wind as the bringer of life.
O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The wing'd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark
Shelley invokes Milton's thanks to his 'Celestial patroness,' who 'inspires / easy [his] unpremeditated Verse' (P.L. 9.21-24)
Strange meter: 3 lines of trochaic trimeter (/ u/ u /u) and one alexanderine (hexameter).
Wordsworth also has a poem of this title.
HAIL to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert'
That from heaven or near it
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art (...).
Up with me! up with me into the clouds!
For thy song, Lark, is strong;
Up with me, up with me into the clouds!
Singing, singing,
With clouds and sky about thee ringing,
Lift me, guide me till I find
That spot which seems so to thy mind! (...)
A Defense of Poetry (essay)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defense of Poetry (essay)
Shelley was moved to write this essay by an ironic statement made by Thomas Love Peacock in his volume The Four Ages of Poetry. Peacock stated that poetry was no longer useful because of the progress of technology and science. Shelley began his defense of poetry by distinguishing between reason and imagination, asserting that reason is a lesser faculty, having to do only with the analysis of things. He argued that imagination sees values and relationships and therefore is a creative faculty. Poetry, Shelley stated, is the expression of the imagination.
Shelley traces the development of poetry from early "savage" times to mature civilizations. He believes that the function of poetry is to give order to the world and thereby to give pleasure. Thus, poets act as legislators, inventing the "art" of life, and also as prophets, because they focus on the eternal and infinite rather than just the local and temporary. By this broad definition even philosophers like Plato or Bacon were poets, and the great poets--Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton--were philosophers.
The effect of poetry is, first of all, pleasure. But more than that, poetry makes people better by softening their natures, by enlarging their sympathies, by encouraging love, and by not being narrowly moralistic. Shelley states that the best poets do not try to teach and that society needs poets. He argues that humans have more practical and technical knowledge than they can possibly use, but that without the values embodied in poetry such knowledge is used to exploit people and cause them misery.
Shelley further proposes that poetry does not come from the reason or the will but rather form the mind in moments of inspiration. He states that the imagination creates far more beautiful images than the composing poet can record. Thus a poet is a person of greater than ordinary sensibility. The poet is happy in the operations of his own mind because he "turns all things to loveliness."
Finally, Shelley proposes in a second part (never written) to discuss contemporary poetic practice. He felt that he was living in an era of great poetry, at a time when enormous social and political upheaval was inspiring poetry. What he called "the spirit of the age" gave power to each individual poet. Shelley concluded with the most famous phrase of the essay: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World." (Also mentions Dante)
Quote: We have more moral, political, and historical wisdom than we know how to reduce into practice; we have more scientific and economic knowledge than can be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies. The poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. . . . We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life; our calculations have outrun our conception. . . . The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world has for want of the poetical faculty proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.
Adonais (An Elegy on the Death of John Keats)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (An Elegy on the Death of John Keats)
Written in Spenserian stanzas like Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes.' It is a pastoral elegy, which is a call to mourning, invocation of the muse and the sympathy of nature with death, procession of the mourners and sorrow to consolation. Shelley did not know Keats well in life, but sympathized with his treatment by the Tory press. The last lines of the elegy take an ironic turn when Shelley's ravaged body is found drowned and can only be identified by a copy of Keat's 1820 volume in his coat pocket. Shelley's heart, hardened by calcium did not burn and Mary Shelley kept it wrapped in a copy of Adonais.
First stanza:
I weep for Adonais - he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years
To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,
And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me
Died Adonais; till the Future dares
Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity!"
Last Stanza:
The breath whose might I have invoked in song
Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest given;
The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
The Rivals
Richard Sheridan, The Rivals (1751-1816)
Same person who wrote The School For Scandal.
malapropism is derived from Mrs Malaprop, continually trying to impress with long words but using the wrong ones). It is, in form, a parody of a conventional romance, having two pairs of young lovers rather different from the norm.
To take the less important pair first, Faulkland is an exaggeration of the sensitive, jealous lover. His girl, Julia, is fairly insipid, but this is necessary because the audience should instantly appreciate that his fears spring entirely from his own mind, and have no basis in her behaviour or inclinations. (An example of this: when Julia returns to her country home briefly and he remains in Bath, Faulkland is at first made unhappy by the thought that her life will be unhappy without him; but when, to reassure him, he is told that she continues to enjoy herself, he is tormented by the thought that this proves her indifferent to him.)
In contrast to Faulkland and Julia, in the other pair of lovers it is not the man who is of interest but the woman. Jack Absolute is a typical young hero, rather in the mould of Fielding's Tom Jones. Lydia Languish, however, is not just the more interesting of the two of them, but the play's main character. (Having the major character in the play female is unusual for the period.) She is a hopeless romantic, addicted to the novels frequently condemned by contemporaries as responsible for the corruption of the morals of young ladies. (The absurdity of that idea is one of the targets Sheridan is attacking.)
In her desperate search for romance, Lydia rejects the fate of marriage to a young nobleman which is the allotted fate for a young lady of fortune. She wants to elope with a penniless man, forcing Jack, who would be the sort of suitor of whom Lydia's family would approve, to disguise himself as a poor army officer. Enjoying her clandestine meetings with "Ensign Beverley", Lydia is enraged when she discovers that he is, in fact, a gentleman - and is only mollified when Jack persuades her that he is only pretending to be rich to trick her family so that he can spend more time with her. (This is of course agreeably dangerous and romantic.)
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
'T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. -- The Rivals. Act i. Sc.
A progeny of learning. -- The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. -- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
He is the very pine-apple of politeness! -- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! -- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The School For Scandal
Richard Sheridan, The School For Scandal (1751-1816)
Brothers Joseph and Charles Surface, and their cousin Maria, are orphans in the care of their uncle, Sir Peter Teazle. Both brothers wish to marry Maria. Lady Sneerwell, a malicious gossip and founder of The School for Scandal, wants to marry Charles and spreads false rumours about an affair between Charles and Lady Teazle in an attempt to make Maria reject Charles. Meanwhile, Joseph is attempting to seduce Lady Teazle. The brothers have a rich uncle, Sir Oliver, whom they have never met, and who visits them both incognito to test their characters before deciding which of them shall inherit his fortune. He finds that Joseph is a sanctimonious hypocrite, and that Charles is a generous libertine, and prefers Charles.
In a farcical scene involving characters hiding behind furniture, Sir Peter learns of the plotting between Joseph and Lady Sneerwell, that the rumours about Charles and Lady Teazle are false, and that his wife is merely a victim of Joseph's flattery. He is therefore reconciled with his wife, and decides that Charles deserves to marry Maria. Lady Teazle, who has had a narrow escape from ruin, delivers an epilogue warning of the dangers of scandal-making.
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word. -- School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
I leave my character behind me. -- School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean,
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty!
Let the toast pass;
Drink to the lass;
I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass. -- School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Defense of Poesy/Apology for Poetry
Sir Phillip Sidney, Defense of Poesy/Apology for Poetry (1554-1586)
Sidney clearly had been contemplating the problem of the poet's role in society for a long time, perhaps since his earliest education in which he would have encountered Plato's famous banishment of poets from the ideal Republic on the grounds that they could lead the Guardians and citizens to immorality. It long has been argued that he may have been responding to Stephen Gosson, a Puritain pamphleteer whose "School of Abuse" blamed playwrights and the theatre, in particular, and poets in general, for leading English society astray. Gosson dedicated the pamphlet to Sidney without asking permission, and some poets at the time suspected Sidney would reply in some fashion. In the "Defense," Sidney argues that poets were the first philosophers, that they first brought learning to humanity, and that they have the power to conceive new worlds of being and to populate them with new creatures. According to Sidney, their "golden" world of possibility is superior to the "brazen" one of historians who must be content with the mere truth of happenstance. He then defines what he belives to be the essential formal characteristics of the various genres of poetry, and defends poetry against the charge that it is composed of lies and leads one to sin.
Golden world / poets are the true philosophers
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
SOME twelve years before the action of the play begins, Oedipus has been made King of Thebes in gratitude for his freeing the people from the pestilence brought on them by the presence of the riddling Sphinx. Since Laius, the former king, had shortly before been killed, Oedipus has been further honored by the hand of Queen Jocasta.
Now another deadly pestilence is raging and the people have come to ask Oedipus to rescue them as before. The King has anticipated their need, however. Creon, Jocasta's brother, returns at the very moment from Apollo's oracle with the announcement that all will be well if Laius' murderer be found and cast from the city.
In an effort to discover the murderer, Oedipus sends for the blind seer, Tiresias. Under protest the prophet names Oedipus himself as the criminal. Oedipus, outraged at the accusation, denounces it as a plot of Creon to gain the throne. Jocasta appears just in time to avoid a battle between the two men. Seers, she assures Oedipus, are not infallible. In proof, she cites the old prophecy that her son should kill his father and have children by his mother. She prevented its fulfillment, she confesses, by abandoning their infant son in the mountains. As for Laius, he had been killed by robbers years later at the junction of three roads on the route to Delphi.
This information makes Oedipus uneasy. He recalls having killed a man answering Laius' description at this very spot when he was fleeing from his home in Corinth to avoid fulfillment of a similar prophecy. An aged messenger arrives from Corinth, at this point, to announce the death of King Polybus, supposed father of Oedipus, and the election of Oedipus as king in his stead. On account of the old prophecy Oedipus refuses to return to Corinth until his mother, too, is dead. To calm his fears the messenger assures him that he is not the blood son of Polybus and Merope, but a foundling from the house of Laius deserted in the mountains. This statement is confirmed by the old shepherd whom Jocasta had charged with the task of exposing her babe. Thus the ancient prophecy has been fulfilled in each dreadful detail. Jocasta in her horror hangs herself and Oedipus stabs out his eyes. Then he imposes on himself the penalty of exile which he had promised for the murderer of Laius.
Gertrude Stein: (1874-1946)
Gertrude Stein: (1874-1946) Modernist
Most famous for The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (her own autobiography composed through the eyes of her lover).
Was more avant-guarde than most of her contemporaries, writing poems like Tender Buttons, where ordinary words and objects become separated from each other - think complete and utter randomness.
Titles include A Box, A Piece of Coffee
Also wanted to paint verbal 'portraits' of people without telling stories.
Influenced Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway.
Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So then the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analysed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to
have a green point not to red but to point again.
Tristram Shandy
Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne's great comic novel, Tristram Shandy, was originally published between 1759 and 1767 in nine small separate volumes, the last appearing shortly before Sterne's death. As the title suggests, the novel sets out to tell the life story of Tristram Shandy, its narrator, beginning with his conception. However, he has so much to relate about his eccentric family that he does not manage to get born until the 4th volume. Realizing, finally, that his task is hopeless - it taking him more time to tell the story than to live his life - the novel ends by concluding that its readers have been taken in by a cock and bull story.
Each text page is characterised by an intricate system of hyphens, dashes, asterisks, and occasional crosses; remarkable use is particularly made of the dash - varying in length, these are often treated as though they were words, while the small type area and generous spacing and margins of the original volumes emphasise their visibility. Regarded as a complex masterpiece today, Dr Johnson famously asserted that its popularity had not lasted because 'Nothing odd will do long'.
Wallace Stevens: (1879-1955)
Wallace Stevens: (1879-1955)
Typical modernist searching for something to bind his life now that religion, etc fails.
Was a lawyer; composed poems to and from the office.
Is now considered pretty major,
Poems include 'The Snowman, Sunday Morning, Death of a Soldier, Of Modern Poetry
Of Modern Poetry
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.
It has to face the men of the time and to meet
The women of the time. It has to think about war
And it has to find what will suffice. It has
To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage,
And, like an insatiable actor..
Sunday Morning
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.
She dreams a little, and she feels the dark
Encroachment of that old catastrophe,
As a calm darkens among water-lights.
The pungent oranges and bright, green wings
Seem things in some procession of the dead,
Winding across wide water, without sound.
The day is like wide water, without sound.
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet
Over the seas, to silent Palestine,
Dominion of the blood and sepulcher...
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1667-1745)
Lilliput: tiny people that try and bind Gulliver to the ground. They take Gulliver to the capital city in a specially designed wagon and he meets their royalty. Gulliver becomes a weapon against the people of Blefscu the Lilliputians have a disagreement over the proper way to crack an egg. Things go pear-shaped when Gulliver pees on the Lilliputians castle to stop a fire.
Brobdingnag: A land of giants. Farmer finds him and treats him like an animal - is sold to the queen for his musical talents. Gulliver is repulsed by their size and their enormous flaws. Everyone is ignorant. Giant animals and bugs almost kill him.
Laputa: Floating island of theoreticians and academics oppress land below called Balnibarbi. Residents are out of touch with reality. He then takes a side trip to Glubbdubdrib where people conjure up figures from history who are much less impressive in real life. Also visits the Struldbrugs who are senile immortals who are really stupid (age does not bring wisdom).
Houyhnhnm: Rational horses who rule and Yahoos (humanoid creatures) who serve them. Gulliver learns their language and teaches them the constitution of England. Enlightened by the horses, but he is banished when they realize he looks like a Yahoo. Gulliver is banished and picked up by a Portuguese ship realizes that all humansa are like the Yahoos.
Jean-Paul Satre
Jean-Paul Satre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic.
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre wrote La Nausée in 1938 while he was a college professor. The Kafka-influenced novel concerns a dejected researcher in a town who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea.
Fresh from several years of travel, 30-year-old Antoine Roquentin settles in the French seaport town of Bouville to finish his research on the life of an 18th-century political figure. But during the winter of 1932 a "sweetish sickness" he calls nausea increasingly impinges on almost everything he does or enjoys — his research project, the company of "The Self-Taught Man" who is reading all the books in the library, a pleasant physical relationship with a cafe owner named Francoise, his memories of Anny, an English girl he once loved … even his own hands and the beauty of nature. Antoine is facing the troublesomely provisional and limited nature of existence itself; he embodies Sartre's theories of existential angst, and he searches anxiously for meaning in all the things that had filled and fulfilled his life up to that point.
No Exit
No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre
Originally published in French in 1944 as Huis Clos, the play features only four characters (one of whom appears for only a very limited time), and one set. No Exit is the source of the famous Sartreian maxim, "Hell is other people".
The play begins with a bellhop leading a man named Garcin into a hotel room (the play portrays Hell as a gigantic hotel, and realization of where the action is taking place dawns on the audience in the opening minutes). The room has no windows and only one door. Eventually Garcin is joined by a woman (Inez), and then another (Estelle). After their entry, the bellhop bolts the door shut. All expect to be tortured, but no torturer arrives. Instead, they realize, they are there to torture each other, which they do effectively, by probing each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. At first, the three see events concerning them that are happening on earth, though they can only observe and listen, but eventually (as their connection to Earth dwindles and the living move on) they are left with only their own thoughts and the company of the other two.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Names to associate with Uncle Tom's Cabin:
1. Uncle Tom
2. Shelby family
3. Eliza
4. Tom Loker
5. Cassy
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (1811-1896), an abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial form from 1851 to 1852 in an abolitionist organ, the National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey. Her second novel was Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, another anti-slavery novel.
When Stowe met Abraham Lincoln in 1862 (during the Civil War), he allegedly greeted her, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
The modern model of the confessional poet, one perhaps begun by the publication of Heart's Needle, by W.D. Snodgrass. Sexton helped open the door not only for female poets, but for female issues; Sexton wrote about menstruation, abortion, masturbation, and adultery before such issues were even topics for casual discussion, helping redefine the boundaries of poetry. Sexton modeled for Boston's Hart Agency. She committed suicide in 1974.
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
There are a few things about Spenser that you definitely need to know.
1. The Spensarian stanza. You need to be able to identify it. The rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC. The first eight lines are iambic pentameter, and the last line is iambic hexameter (called an alexandrine). The GRE, out of some love of anachronism, badly wants you to know what an alexandrine is, so learn it.
2. If you know that the language of his poetry is purposely antique, you will have no problem picking it out, especially since it doesn't really look like Chaucer, anyway; think of it as an imitation of Chaucher, and you approach a description of Spenser's poetry.
Spenserian sonnet
Edmund Spenser employed an a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, c-d-c-d, e-e rhyme scheme – as evidenced in his Amoretti sequence. This form has not been particularly popular.


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Deccan Chronicle
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Katrina Kaif
This December, we're about to see Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma share screen space with Shah Rukh Khan in the much-anticipated film Zero. After having watched the recently-launched trailer, we find out more about Katrina's role in the film.
Explaining how Babita, her character, is nothing like her in real life, Katrina says, "Her personality is not at all like me. Unlike Babita, I am well-behaved and quite sensitive." She adds, "This film has been a most unexpected journey for me. I was wondering whether Anand sir trusted me. The most important thing is that we've tried to do something different together."
While reports suggest that Babita is based on troubled Hollywood stars like Demi Moore and Lindsay Lohan, Katrina explains that that's not true. She says, "The only inspiration for the character came from Anand Sir, Himanshu, the writer, and myself. We created her. According to Anand sir, I already had in me all that was needed to for the role."


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Beautiful Llwyn-y-fron with its gorgeous Garden Studio is one of the highest and most remote holiday cottages in the Brecon Beacons, with the most stunning panoramic views across to the Black Mountains.
Reached up narrow lanes, Llwyn-y-fron sits at around 300 meters above sea level sits and is a unique property with lots of character and the most breath-taking and dramatic views of any of the properties on our books.
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This traditional stone cottage sleeps 8 people in 4 bedrooms - two of which are en-suite, perfect for a family with a couple perhaps wanting more quiet in the outside stone Garden Studio.
The panoramic views across the Brecon Beacons to The Black Mountains, coupled with this flexible and immaculate accommodation, provides the perfect holiday location in The Brecon Beacons in South Wales.
Sleeps 6/8 - 1 Double, 1 Twin/Double, 2 Kingsize/Twin
Llwyn-y-fron offers highly flexible accommodation with three of its four bedrooms able to convert to twin rooms if required. Separate from the main building, the Garden Studio houses a large bedroom with a superking sized bed, which can convert to twins and a well-appointed en-suite. This annexe is ideal for grandparents, teenagers or anyone within the party that may appreciate a lie-in! Llwyn-y-fron itself can accommodate a maximum of 8 guests, 6 in the main house and a further two in the Garden Studio.
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As you walk through the front door and into the large entrance hall with a seating area you immediately get a feel for this unique cottage with the flagstone floors covered by Moroccan rugs and interesting and tasteful antique pieces furnishing the house gathered by the owners on their many overseas travels. This room acts as a very useful second sitting room with its own TV.
The main sitting room has oak beams, an inglenook fireplace with bread oven and woodburning stove and is comfortably furnished with brown leather sofas and chairs, TV with Freeview, DVD with Blueray, ipod docking station, CD and MP3 connection, all linked to a "full surround" music system which can be played throughout the house. Excellent WIFI thoughout.
Follow the steep stone spiral staircase up from the sitting room to:
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with its superb King sized bed (which can become two singles) and hand carved antique headboard. (this bedroom has no door and is reached up quaint original very steep and narrow stone spiral steps).
This room has a generously sized en-suite with a bath, handbasin and toilet.
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Kitchen/Dining Room: With a range electric cooker with double ovens and six ceramic plates and hob, a microwave, dishwasher, and large fridge/freezer. There is a large dining table seats 8 and diners will be able to enjoy amazing views from the bay window. From the kitchen, a few steps lead down to a utility room or boot area which houses the washing machine, and provides ample storage space for coats and boots.
Downstairs Shower room with shower, handbasin and toilet.
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Bedroom 3: Can be made up as a twin or converted to a double room.
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Garden Studio Bedroom 4: A King sized bed can, once again be converted to a twin if guest's prefer and the room also benefits from a beautiful en-suite bathroom with shower, handbasin and toilet.
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This fabulous purpose built new office/studio/games room is an ideal retreat with wonderful panoramic views - great for yoga and exercise. Plenty of office space with space for three work stations full WIFI - large TV multi channel, Blue Ray, DVD, IPOD, HUMAX, Wii - computer-access system. Surround music system. The double doors open out onto the main terrace wiews over the surrounding farmland.
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Phenomenal views and walks from your door - Llwyn-y-fron benefits from the most extraordinary views out over the Usk Valley, Black Mountains and Hay Bluff. Enjoy dinner looking out over the terrace take in the scenery or sit on the stone terrace for a truly memorable al fresco dining experience. This traditional stone cottage offers total privacy with the added bonus of a large, mature garden. The garden features a small gazebo with electricity, large flagstone terrace, outdoor furniture, a BBQ and a lockable shed, ideal for bike storage.
Whatever your energy levels Llwyn-y-fron offers the ideal walk straight from your own front door with less than a minutes walk before being on the actual mountainside. Explore the upland waterfall country nearby, the numerous walks along Brecon and Monmouth Canal or challenge yourself with the 2.5 hour walk to the summit of Pen-y-Fan, the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons. Alternatively, a gentler 30 minute stroll down the lane brings you to the White Swan Inn, the excellent local pub or to the nearby Cantref Trekking Centre and Children's Adventure Farm.
A wealth of character features - This quirky cottage really has it all from the traditional Inglenook fireplace, woodburning stove, oak beams and flagstone floors to a really beautiful antique Indonesian style headboard in the master bedroom and many other interesting Asian antiques. Llwyn-y-fron still boasts its original bread oven and has a fabulous spiral stone staircase up to the master bedroom. This staircase is very steep so the master bedroom would not be suitable for anyone with mobility problems. The Garden Studio is perfect with a hard wood oak floor for Yoga/Pilates/Aerobics etc.
Llanfrynach 2 miles, Brecon 3 miles.
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The timezone in Beaven Cemetery is America/Rankin_Inlet
Morning Sunrise at 06:53 and Evening Sunset at 17:10. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 33.6936°, Longitude. -87.5581°
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Weather near Beaven Cemetery Last report from Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Regional Airport, AL 66.8km awayTemperature: -2°C / 28°F
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Geographic features & Photographs around Beaven Cemetery in Alabama, United States
cemetery a burial place or ground.
- Beaven Cemetery (0km)
- Pendley Cemetery (1.3km)
- Bethabara Cemetery (2.1km)
- Alta Cemetery (3km)
- Tabernacle Cemetery (4.5km)
- Cedar Creek Cemetery (4.8km)
- Pendley Cemetery (5.7km)
- New Hope Cemetery (5.8km)
- Panter Cemetery (6.1km)
- Berry City Cemetery (6.1km)
- Jenkins Cemetery (6.4km)
- Panter Cemetery (6.6km)
- Salem Cemetery (7.3km)
- Frost Cemetery (7.4km)
- Madison Cemetery (7.6km)
- New Salem Cemetery (7.7km)
- Pendley Cemetery (7.8km)
- Gibson Hill Cemetery (8.5km)
church a building for public Christian worship.
- Bethabara Church (2.2km)
- Alta Church (3.1km)
- Mount Joy Church (4.8km)
- Calvary Church (5.6km)
- New Hope Church (5.9km)
- Berry Methodist Church (6.7km)
- Berry Baptist Church (6.8km)
- Old Salem Church (7.2km)
- Salem Church (7.7km)
- Boley Church (8.2km)
- Gibson Hill Church (8.5km)
stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Pine Branch (5.2km)
- Little Cedar Creek (5.2km)
- Cane Creek (5.8km)
- Laney Branch (5.9km)
- Thornton Branch (7km)
- Star Branch (7.4km)
- Beaver Creek (8.2km)
- George Creek (8.2km)
- Erie Creek (8.6km)
Local Feature A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Bevans Chapel (0.1km)
- Pendley Chapel (1.3km)
- Tabernacle Church (historical) (4.4km)
- Pea Ridge Church of Christ (5.6km)
- Berry Church of Christ (6.6km)
- Nazarene Church of Berry (6.8km)
- Pilgrim Chapel (8.6km)
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populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
school building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Berry High School (6.5km)
- Berry Elementary School (6.6km)
- Alabama Christian College (historical) (6.6km)
- Oak Grove School (historical) (7.2km)
mine(s) a site where mineral ores are extracted from the ground by excavating surface pits and subterranean passages.
- Pea Ridge Number 1 Mine (3.3km)
- Corona Number 20 Mine (6.7km)
- West Corona Mine (7.7km)
valley an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.
- Stanford Hollow (8.6km)
post office a public building in which mail is received, sorted and distributed.
- Berry Post Office (7km)
mountain an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Frost Hill (8.1km)
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- Nauvoo, Alabama city o city
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Airports close to Beaven CemeteryBirmingham international(BHM), Birmingham, Usa (97.3km)
Columbus afb(CBM), Colombus, Usa (105.2km)
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Thanks to the 174 TechCommNZ members and non-members who took the opportunity to complete the TechCommNZ Annual Salary Survey. Steve Moss, former TechCommNZ President, has kindly collated the raw data for us. The full survey is only available to TechCommNZ members, who need to log in to the site to access the Member Area and Survey.
Here are a few of the key survey findings:
- Salaries are increasing! Respondents' salaries have been slowly increasing since 2010. In our most recent survey (December 2017 to January 2018) 30.1% of respondents were earning over $90,000. In the 2017 results, slightly more respondents are earning over $100,000 per yer compared to 2016. This is a significant increase from the 2010 survey, when only 14.5% of respondents were earning over $90,000 per year.
- We're growing as an industry! The number of technical communicators with less than three years' experience is on the rise – suggesting that more new people are joining the industry than ever before.
- We're modernising! The four most common types of work showed a slight trend towards maintaining web pages and away from paper-based documentation.
- We've fewer freelancers. Full-time and part-time salaried staff predominate while contract and self-employed technical communicators are on the decline.
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- Only one respondent had more than 10 people reporting to them.
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I recently updated my privacy settings on Facebooks as all the other kids are doing it, but I think I locked it down so much that you have to be operating at least at Thetan Level III in order to view my profile. Speaking of thetans, according to the internet once you reach the highest level in Scientology you can actually move things with your mind. Like the Yodas do!
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At some point one is to eventually reach the state of Cleared Theta Clear, a spiritual state which Hubbard describes this way: "A thetan who is completely rehabilitated and can do everything a thetan should do, such as move MEST and control others from a distance, or create his own universe."
By the ways, "MEST" stands for "matter, energy, space and time" - so not only can you move matter, but you can move energy. And space. And time. Now, I'm not saying that your "religion" is "crazy", but, um.
Well, actually, I am. That's crazy talk. Until someone can move the water bottle on my desk with their crazy thetan free mind, that is officially crazy talk.
I always have to remember that FB is free and has given me hours upon hours of enjoyment and that I don't have my address, SSN, or PIN posted on it. If I did, I might be nervous about the privacies. But, I am not.
People seem a bit crazy about it.
BTW, I've used the word "crazy" already too much in this BLOG post and my PIN is 3914.
(very smart people could take that faux-PIN and figure out my real PIN somehow... "the numbers he picked will lead us to the numbers he is trying not to pick!")
(then they will withdrawl all my money!)
Question: Girls and Bikes
Do "girls" (aka "womens") still ride "girls'" bikes? We were looking at bikes this past weekend and I saw this clever little purple single-speed jobby that looked like it would be perfect for Mrs. Robot. I think the bike was marketed towards the womens, but it also had a straight top-tube. On the way home, we counted the number of women on non-girl bikes (the majority) and noticed that most of the women on girls' bikes often fell into the following groups:
- statuesque model type
- crazy lady
- old lady with tennis racket
Ladies: What are you riding?
And don't you think that little purple bike was the bees knees and Mrs. Robot needs to buy it?
Oh, Martin
A friend from university (aka "the college years") had this as her status last night.
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth." -- Martin Luther
I get what she is saying. I don't agree as my vague Methodist background tells me to keep quiet about religion. It's personal and you don't discuss it and it doesn't really belong in the schools. This all led me to looking online about other things that Martin Luther said about religion and schools. I didn't find much unless you were discussing a Jewish school - and in that case you don't really need to explain the holy scriptures to the children
because you will be too busy burning down their school and setting aflame their prayer books
I didn't realize that Martin Luther hated the Jews. Good going Protestants!
Baron Ambrosia: Yo, that is crazy!
If you live in the NYC you might have come across
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. The Baron travels through the Bronx looking for delightful food while at the same time getting involved in low-budget misadventures. The show is goofy and maybe a little juvenile, but I like the Baron.
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Yeah, Lutherans don't really like to talk about the fact that Luther went crazy pants where Jews and Catholics are involved. He was more or less reasonable–as far as deeply religious people can be–as long as you didn't bring up those, but man did he get pissy.
»stu || 5/18/2010 || 11:32:43 AM
There's some interesting stuff, actually, about how Luther might have been radicalized by really uncomfortable hemorrhoids.
Marx had issues with them as well. It made him cranky.
»stu || 5/18/2010 || 11:34:02 AM
I ride a hybrid that's heavy with lots of speeds and wish I had a cruiser with a big gay basket.
»pony || 5/18/2010 || 12:57:25 PM
Also, about women's bikes, I've been trying to figure out what to do to get my girlfriend to bike with me.
I think most people who want to be considered serious cyclists won't use a bike without a straight top-tube because the bikes are weaker because of that, and it's not necessary these days unless you wear a skirt all the time.
»stu || 5/18/2010 || 1:27:01 PM
since we have to tote our bikes upstairs, I'd love to find something for Mrs. Robot that isn't so heavy. She, too, has this hybrid thing with lots of gears, but it's also lots of heavy.
This is what I want for her: small road frame + old school three speed.
»:r || 5/18/2010 || 1:32:42 PM
The old girly bikes with step-thru frames work for the summer when you don't change to sports clothes to bike. Great for dresses (no flashing your panties) and the more upright stance means less cleavage to the public as you don't lean down.
It's such a pain trying to swing my leg over my bike frame in a dress. So embarrassing.
»pony || 5/18/2010 || 1:50:51 PM
Hmmm. I'm not sure less flashing and less cleavage is the way to go to convince us here.
»stu || 5/18/2010 || 3:03:38 PM
@Stu - yeah, i didn't think so.
Re: facebook - I really hate it when ppl migrate all their correspondence through fbook. It's always felt too big (company-wise), and too slight for important letters.
This whole "more people visit fbook than google" is going to their heads. A total "bigger than jesus" kinda conceit.
»pony || 5/18/2010 || 4:00:52 PM
clap my hands. nice job. i think you're a writer of talent. ... not that you care, but you had me at the thetans and the final shot - the bookends... i was like, 'dude. thetans, just move his water bottle. it will be real. the end. we will be good and believe now...' but we'd muck it up. that is what this site is... silly humans saying silly things but making an artifact... remember front
»kristen martin || 5/18/2010 || 8:38:17 PM
you know, i never really left my village of myspace. i still know a few folks back at that "internet hub". websites will be like virtual cities. blah blah blah.
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Here is the link to my google drive with the the audio tracks for all five of our Veterans' Day Songs. I've also included lyric pages for "The Star Spangled Banner," "Grateful to be American," and "The Armed Forces Medley."
Hey 3rd Graders,
Here is the link to my google drive with the the audio tracks for all five of our Veterans' Day Songs. I've also included lyric pages for "The Star Spangled Banner," "Grateful to be American," and "The Armed Forces Medley."
Hey 5th Graders!
I'm looking for a handful of students to sing a special part along with the Third Grade Classes during the Veterans' Day Assembly. If you're interested, please start listening and practicing the song. We'll have auditions in a week or so. (I'll announce the date ahead of time).
Click on this link to get to the folder in my Google Drive with the vocal and accompaniment track to the song:
Hey 4th Graders!
I think I have solved our rehearsal track problem.
Use this link to get to a folder in my google drive where I've added all the accompaniment tracks for our program. Recorder Tracks
Happy Practicing! ~ Mrs. Franklin
Hey 3rd Graders!
Your songs are available to practice along with on the Upcoming Performances Page! Go check it out!
Mrs. Franklin
Hey 4th Grade! Our concert is getting closer and closer. Look on the Recorder Page to practice along with the accompaniment tracks.
Mrs. Franklin :o)
Hey 4th Grade!
Go on over to the Recorder Page to practice a long with accompaniment tracks for our recorder pieces. Only 3 weeks till our performance!!!
Mrs Franklin :o)
The 2nd Grade classes will be performing three songs at the upcoming PTA Meeting on Tuesday, February 18, 2014. The meeting begins at 6:30 pm and the 2nd graders will perform immediately following the meeting.
Students should report to their classroom between 6:15 – 6:20 to line up for the performance.
Students should wear jeans, a solid-colored shirt, and tennis shoes.
Our 5th graders did a FABULOUS job on their Winter Program this year! You can catch it again on HCPS-TV from December 21st – January 8th at 2:30 pm each day. Channel 99 for Comast users and Channel 38 for Verzion users.
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It's a sickness
Moving around this evening from work to Shibuya and up Dogenzaka to attend a kind of interview, involving a fair bit of walking, it struck me that there was not much pain or even discomfort coming from the sore bit. My mind got to working. Every day in September. Every day in September. Maybe you can still do it? I trotted a little bit in my work clothes. Hmm...doesn't hurt. No, don't be foolish! I tried to shove such thoughts to the back of my mind. So on the way back from the interview I popped into Tokyu Department Store 8th floor above Shibuya Station. There is an Osaka goods promotion (until Oct 2), and prominent among the stands was one from a craft brewery, Minoh Brewing. Their double IPA (9% ABV) was extremely tasty (both glasses), as was their real ale style stout. I got home at 9:30 and only Kohta was home and he was engrossed in his Play Station (Final Fantasy XII for those who are interested in such things).
"Hi Kohta!" I said. "Gomen ne, demo chotto atama ni byouki desukara, kore kara chotto hashitte dekakimasu." (sorry mate, I'm, a little bit sick in the head, so now I am going to go out for a little run." -- apologies to those who speak proper Japanese)
I thought that my 3.3 km loop would be enough to satisfy the "run day" requirement. But I moved well, the evening was extremely pleasant, I had a nice little buzz on from the Minoh beer, the leg wasn't too uncomfortable as long as I kept to an easy pace, so I added on a lap of Rinshi no Mori (forest park) to come up with 5.3 km at 5:18/km, HRavg 125.
It was definitely as much as I could hope for, especially considering I had tried so hard to reconcile myself to taking a day off, and I would like to think it did not set back the sore bit too much. At times I also had the thought that, well, you know, this is what I enjoy, this is what I get off on. Just the sheer pleasure of moving along, breathing easy, feeling alive. Kind of like 2P's happy place. So what if I endanger my marathon? Just as Naoko Takahashi said that running is about more than the Olympics, so too can I say that running is about more than a sub 2:55 Ohtwara. So I just enjoyed the run, sore leg be buggered.
Well, I know I am a SFI, but I promise that I am going to keep things very easy and next week really concentrate on cross training, just as some of you suggested in the comments, e.g., Toshihiko Seko. Sure I can get away with these little gentle runs, but if I am going to get to the start line in better shape, I have to give the leg a real chance to of coming good so I can fit in a couple more quality weeks down the line a bit.
Thank you for understanding this poor, sick, addicted runaholic.
9 comments:
- Tesso said...
Re the previous post ... :-(
Re this post ... :-)
Yes, you have a problem with your addiction. I can totally understand. In 2003 I started out on New Years Day and than ran every day for weeks and weeks. And bragged about it. I didn't brag about the injury that saw me not running for two months.
Take care.
- Rachel said...
Ha! Glad to read you don't follow you're own advice :) I've been doing the same thing. Little jogs down the work corridor. You've just convinced me to go for a little jog today.
- Christian said...
beware ;-)
well, i should have known you better. of course you went for a run...
hope you could still listen to your body despite having had some beer (but i guess your used to that)
- Scott said...
You certainly seem addicted Steve no less than a strung out junkie or gambler.
And although us running bloggers will all give you "good" advice, like Rachel and Tesso said we often can't take it ourselves.
I'm afraid you're just going to have to play it by ear doing enough to keep you under sated.It is indeed a "knife-edge."
Those that are able to hit a balance with this are the ones that run great races and PB. The rest, like most of us, keep battling on, striving to get it right.
I sincerely wish/believe you have what it takes to achieve the balance. Still you will need our support ;)
- 2P said...
Just as well - I was just about to write on my blog how wussy I thought you were being :)))))
It certainly is a great achievement to run every day of the month - the improtant bit is you are listening to your body - when it said "don't run" you planned not to, when reneged and said "ok then, go for a trot" you did. I prefer this method to religiously sticking to a plan.
- Robert Song said...
There but for the grace of god go I.
- MilesandMiles said...
Which runner would not relate to your situation. I have started my speed phase and writing this with ice on my achilles! That's also why i only go to see Sports doctors who are also runners...!
Take it easy. I suggest you do some hard interval on the elyptical if possible (did that when i was injured in Jan and turned out well - boring though!)
- Ewen said...
I'd call you an SFI if it was a diagnosed stress fracture, but maybe this is one of those things you can jog out over a few days. Keeping the blood (and beer) flowing might even be beneficial!
A suggestion on the addiction to the improved numbers of the 5k time trial... why not run it at "late in the marathon" goal heart-rate? This would give improved numbers month by month, feedback on marathon pace and be less risky for injury.
Regarding Ohtwara, can you "train through" this one and leave all the speedwork/peaking for one in January? November is not that far away.
- Ingo said...
From my recent experience: First we tend to ignore the fact that we might be injured. The moment we write on our blogs about it the injury is very likely already fully blown because of the lag between occurence and acknowledgement.
Question: What would it mean to you if you could never again run the way you just did in September?
Sounds drastic but sometimes helps making the right choices. If I could go back in time, I would not only train differently, I'd also plan my recovery much better.
Harry Hindsight is probably the fastest guy on the planet - but hey, your recovery is ahead of you. Don't mess that up ;-)
Good luck mate!


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Maybe Bug 280600 is related.
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Sun, 1 March 2015
Christian returns from performing in the Off Broadway run of the hit play Great Lakes! Shonali and Christian survived Hurricane Sanday, Blizzard Juno but not the 2015 Oscars. They go on and on and on about it. WDEK is 30 episodes into its existence and but the temp is way below 30 degrees in NYC! Christian relates the temperature to crazy behavior on the subway. Special guest comedian Danny Cohen is a stencilist and recently discovered marijuana. He rides the Q train and has a torn meniscus. He feels like he is a failed comic but Shonali knows otherwise. He owns his own home! Our next guest is comedian and artist Sharon Spell who has been sober as of a year ago and is feeling good about it. We are too. She is from Hattiesburg, Mississippi has nice snow boots and also has a torn meniscus like Danny. She is more southern than Shonali and calls her father, "Daddy." Our musical guest is Early Riser (Heidi Vanderlee and Kiri Oliver) who so graciously played an extra song for us which was the debut of a new song, they have never played live before in front of an audience. The song is called OH NEVER MIND! And we were all like, YEAH WE DONT MIND! You ladies are fantastic. ENJOY!
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Fri, 26 September 2014
Christian and Shonali host another edition of WDEK in front of a live audience at HiFi. Special guests include actress Amy Ryan, comedian Jena Friedman, NY1 reporter Roger Clark and musician Matt Whyte. Christian has a brand new industrial blender and cooking injury. If you had to get plastic surgery, what kind would you get? Even Justin shares his thoughts? What is it like to become a professional actress just after high school? Academy Award nominated actress Amy Ryan answers that question and more. Catch her in Birdman with Michael Keaton, Louder Than Bombs with Gabriel Byrne, and Steven Spielberg's newest with Tom Hanks. Unbelievable right? Comedian Jena Friedman shares her insight into the ebola epidemic, Letterman, The Daily Show and American Girl mania. Follow her on Twitter ya'll. One of our favorite tv personalities, NY1's morning features reporter, Roger Clark is a bowler, a rock n' roller, and sometimes gets star struck. Have you seen him doing parkour, air guitaring to Rush, or break dancing at the Flushing YMCA? Check out his band Perp Walk. Musician and former Earl Greyhound, guitar player/vocalist, Matt Whyte just finished a new solo release called Rupe Shears. Find out why kids in high school liked him outside of the fact he wore Malcolm X glasses. For the WDEK audience he played two songs. One called The Hoover Dam, and the other was a Bossa Nova tune, which he sang in Portuguese so we have no idea what that one was called.
Stay tuned for a pic of Christian's injury.
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Category:general, comedy, good+times -- posted at: 1:09am EST
Tue, 29 April 2014
Still cold in NYC! Shonali and Christian are happy to have been able to enjoy some warm weather in other cities. Christian travels with a hungry German Shepherd and a lady who will be jamming up in heaven. Shonali, Justin, and Christian celebrate the success of their short film Sardines Out of A Can, the winner of the Best Romantic Comedy Short Film at the Bare Bones Film Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Shonali's parents share their expert thoughts on the newest Late Night tv hosts and the future of the Late Show. Shonali's mom is way ahead of Shonali when it comes to keeping up with Comedy Central. Adam Wade, the 18 time Moth Story Slam winner and co-star of Sardines Out of A Can is our special guest. Christian's newest hashtags are #DestinationSlice #3StoriesInOneNight #MarieIsListening. Hoboken has happily adopted Adam. Adam hosts his own UCB East show called The Adam Wade from New Hampshire Show. Go see it. He also teaches storytelling classes at The Magnet Theater. Shonali, Christian, and Justin are going to take his class. Come join us. Our Episode 22 song is Luna by the band Fear of Men.
Direct download: WDEK_Ep._23_Adam_Wade.m4a
Category:general, comedy, good+times -- posted at: 7:35pm EST
Thu, 20 March 2014
Whoa! It's already St. Patrick's Day weekend - Christian and Shonali have way too much to catch up on. We talk Riverdance, Bronies, and walking strategies for New Yorkers. Shonali is dissed by her dad. Christian is in a TMZ phase. Shonali bombed an audition and Christian booked his. We share diatribes on hipster diatribes. Our special guest this episode is comedienne and actress Bridey Elliott. She just returned from Austin, where the film in which she co-stars, Fort Tilden, just won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW. We talk animal handling, teen age angst, and growing up in a comedy family. Her father is Chris Elliott, sister is Abby Elliott, and grandfather is Bob Elliott. We also talk boyfriends, strategies for avoiding getting raped, Siri and butt dialing. In addition to acting, Bridey does stand up and is also performing in Absolutely, her Maude Night improv group at the UCB Theatre. We had so much fun having Bridey as our guest. You will hear Shonali laughing the ENTIRE episode. GAWSH! Our Episode 22 song is Sunshine Love by Rikki Ililonga.
Direct download: WDEK_Ep_22_Bridey_Elliott.m4a
Category:general, comedy, good+times -- posted at: 12:31am EST
Fri, 24 January 2014
Happy New Year to all our WDEK listeners. Things are off to a good start in the WDEK studios with Christian and Shonali both getting sick over the holidays. We are having a snow storm right now. Christian talks about story hijackers and Justin lends us his thoughts. Parents think they are better drivers than their kids and that's a fact. Shonali's mom sends Christian a special FB message. Subway sightings include a dancer at Union Square platform and a man with a carryon and a tennis racquet. Our special guest is Pete Miser, the legendary front man of Five Fingers of Funk from Portland, OR and a rapper who has released 4 full length albums of his own, while helming the board at his own Ho House studios in Tribeca. He's worked closely with Dido and Imani Coppola and is always making new music. Pete comes bearing gifts. This one is especially for Christian and his former thigh chafing issues (as heard on Ep. 4). Pete was a B-boy who started to rap at age 16. He will fill you in on what's happening in hip hop today, and what's not. Did you see the Indian dancing boy star on India's Got TAlent? Are musicians sellouts for putting their music in commercials? Shonali is reading the Miles Davis Autobiography. Sounds are a singular experience. You can hear them by just reading about them. Pete makes his world debut of Hands Up 3.3 on We Don't Even Know! Put your HANDS UP!!!!!
Direct download: WDEK_Ep.21_Pete_Miser.m4a
Category:general, comedy, good+times -- posted at: 12:40pm EST