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Publication Date: 1 Mar 2010 50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
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Psychiatry: The Science of Lies › Thomas Szasz
Toxic Psychiatry. Drugs and Electroconvulsive  Dorothy Rowe
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Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, where he has taught since 1956. Inside This Book
Since the modern concept of hysteria was cut from the cloth of malingering, and since the physician most responsible for establishing "hysteria" as a medically legitimate illness was Charcot, I shall start with an examination of his work; and I shall then trace the development of the concept of hysteria to the present time. Read the first page
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies Paperback
Format:Paperback|Verified Purchase If you want an antidote to the drug companies and psychiatiry this is the book to read.Or any of the numerous other books by Sasz. In the words of bob Dylan - When will they ever learn
Classic psychiatry!!
By Steve92
Format:Paperback|Verified Purchase This book is seminal work, that is just as valid today as when written. As a nurse that has worked for many years with people who struggle through life with a pattern of non adaptivew coping strategies, this book increases an understandng of the futility of applying the medical model. I recomend you read it!
Szasz knows the truth !
By E. Blonde
Format:Paperback The first time I came into contact with Thomas Szasz was in the spring of 1980, my last year in high school. The book was about anti-psychiatry and the way society was responsible for many mental problems. Later when I studied medicine my grandmother bought me another Szasz book (she was also born in Hungary) because i was studying Freud and Adler. His books changed my view on the topic of mental illnesses and psychiatry. He calls Psychiatry, the science of lies in his last work, he is not telling lies, he is very close to the truth. "The subject matter of psychiatry is neither minds nor mental diseases, but lies ...." After more than 25 years at the university, I went back to real science, I felt that social science does not stand the test of real science, psychiatry is not a science, but a tool for society to eliminate unwanted subjects. If you look closely to forensic psychiatry, how it works, what it says .... you can spot the lie, you can smell deceit from a distance. Szasz is the scientific knight who pulled the veil of Maya away from psychiatry and psychology !
Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Thomas Szasz writes logically and succinctly about the fact that so called "mental illness" does not exist. In this day and age with big Pharma attempting to drug everyone on the planet and convince us we're all in need of medication it's hard to imagine that it is a big fraud. But it is. Read and learn how it all started. Then read his later books such as Psychiatry- The Science of Lies. Get enlightened and fight back- while you still can.
Heavy Charge into the Very Light Brigade
Format:Paperback|Verified Purchase Szasz is not saying there is no such thing as human distress, he agress with that. It is just the labels and diagnoses that are attached to the person who exhibits a categorised "illness." Mental illness cannot be found in the body as a disease or a genetic change, therefore he sets out to highlight how psychiatry invented the disorers.The basic belief being that psychological illnesses do not exist, as in a pathogene, or the body changing its infrastructure irrevocably. There is no bipolar, autism, schizo, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, anorexia gene. There is however a belief these genes exist and huge expenditure is placed upon finding them. All based on the perception that human beings are clockwork toys that lack certain chemicals just like a car or a robot. The views arrive from a sense of making the human being into a robot regardless of veracity. Szasz begins to talk apart the constructs within this book, piece by piece, and it makes very uncomfortable reading for any psych doctor, nurse etc.The first and fundamental error of psych science, it all rests upon belief, just the same as religion. It needs adherents and people to spread the message. Then it needs to take out dissenters. Into the silo huge industries arise based on keeping the real causes of misery a mystery - the social structures created to make sense of the world and negating the emotional world at the expense of abstracts.Szasz dons his armour, takes his sword and charges ahead into the mass ranks of the believers and they all melt into thin air, because their genetic beliefs are tissue paper. However this tissue paper is encoded in the belief systems of those who need to believe. It is this which keeps it all intact.An insightful book written to take apart the modern fallacies of psychiatric "science" which is anything but.
"The Myth of Mental Illness" is not Szasz's magnum opus.
Format:Paperback Though this book might be of paramount importance for those who desire to find an antithetical position to the "Doctors for the pathologizing of human behavior," I think it a terrible mistake to read this book with the assumption that understanding Szasz will be the result. Written early in his career, this book, like Beethoven's early symphonies, deserves not the attention it receives for the titilating title. I believe the influence of Karl Kraus caused the about face demonstrated by "The Myth of Psychotherapy" from the position outlined in "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis," both books he published later. For those that desire to find a summation of Szasz in one volume, I would recommend "Insanity."
Challenging and important
Format:Paperback Szasz has a strong and anti-establishment view of psychiatry, and uses a range of arguments from sociology, semiotics, communication analysis, ethics and game theory to support his position. At times dense and confusing - perhaps even too quick at points to make some half-baked assertions and rhetorical sleights of hand - Szasz's book overall nevertheless makes a serious and significant case that deserves thought and deliberation even if in the end you disagree.
The myths of the fanatical, neo-Kraepelinian brain scapegoaters
By The Sweet poetry of Pus
Format:Paperback Thomas Szasz, vociferous, unwavering opponent of coercive psychiatry and the many it has and continues to ruin, unleashed a lot of irrational forces amongst the psychiatric establishment when he wrote this exceptional critique of the concept of mental illness.It still remains a concept from my perspective, as many epistemological studies into how researchers came to the conclusion that mental illnesses are positive truths, genetic in aetiology, and diseases of the brain, seem to me to show.Perhaps the most contemptible thing amongst all eras of psychiatry, apart from its barbarous therapeutics, is its dogmatism and its harnessing of language to the purpose of mass deception, deceptions that may strain credulity for the independent thinker, but are unthinkingly internalised by the herd who probably find it quite pleasing to think that the false dichotomy of sane and insane exists and they are the healthy ones. As Szasz cogently propounds in this book, a pathology is something you discover, something corporeal, and not something relative to someone else's framework of perception and ideological and moral beliefs.Yet researchers and neo-Kraepelinians alike continue to persist obdurately in their folly. They assume as axiomatic their beliefs, looking at things through their own hermeneutic frameworks that predisposes the research to the desired result, yet the evidence derived from things such as the twin-studies seems to me to be preponderantly weighted towards an environmental causation rather than a genetic one for the putative illness of people like myself.Many seem to find inconceivable the role that cognitive biases play in the conclusions derived from these studies because, after all, the whole psychiatric establishment needs confirmation of its hypotheses to authenticate its existence. However, this isn't a conspiracy, no, just humans, limitless in their capacity for self-deception, being humans. They seem not to be conversant with the sophistical processes and mechanisms of their own minds. They might want to read about the Experimenter's bias.Yet there is a systematic unwillingness amongst many psychiatrists and thoose who espouse the neo-Kraepelinian beliefs to treat the indivdual as if he didn't live in a vacuum or to account for the dialectic between man and his environment, the infinite variability of experience. To them, these are only of subsidiary importance in understanding that most stultifying of labels ascribed arbitrarily by one human to another; mental illness.Szasz has argued throughout his long career that the conventional wisdom regarding the psychiatric establishment is also mythological in character, and that the view of the psychiatrist or the psychiatric nurse as merely dispatching a duty to the citizen is a hideous self-deception and rationalisation of what is, perhaps, another chapter in the metanarrative in human history of the systematic oppression of the powerless by the powerful.Society ritually scapegoats men and women and is never held to account, and in the current system of majoritarian democracy with its attendant myths of tolerance and fairness, where mass opinions and values are extolled to the high heavens and anyone who criticises courts the scurrilites of the complacent mob, the majority-minority dichotomy is as relevant as ever, and that psychiatry performs a function for the state and society predominantly, is something Szasz has perennially argued to be the case.As, to my mind, he has successfully argued throughout his career, intolerance of differences (a phrase that is something of an anathema in our disingenuous age of purported pluralism and tolerant values...what conceited tripe!) is a regular feature of human societies, and psychiatry and its coercive apparatus is baneful in influence to the individual. As a person who has had direct sensory experience of these things I can testify to the way in which it disarms the individual under the pretence of noble intentions, which in my opinion, only the most terminally naive would believe in because, once the stigma is attached to you, it becomes a weapon in the hands of others who use it as a rationalisation for detainment and coercive treatment and also in arguments in general, conveniently attributing your every action and word to your supposed disease with impunity, and often shifting blame from themselves, as I learnt much to my chagrin whilst on a ward.One of the obvious reasons why people find the concept of mental illness so seductive is because most people will tend to believe in what the common herd believes, as much as anything as to consolidate their position in society, and to not do or believe in anything that may pose a threat to their social, economic and sexual security and prospects, in my opinion, after all, there are many punitive and marginalising mechanisms in place for society's secular heretics.Their laughs and general smug, self-congratulatory dismissiveness is little no more than an expression of herd behaviour, of an ovine mentality that strikes me as little more than an encumbrance to progress. Yet the seeming overconfidence of those who who are convinced, for example, in the brain disease hypothesis, is ridiculous. Always the same apodictic mannerisms characterise their discourse, always feigned laughter, always an excess of adverbs such as 'truly' and 'definitely' and 'incontestably', and never anything to moderate such arrogance and absurd peremptoriness. Their lust for authority is 'truly' monumental. Read more ›
dont like the concept but very interesting The idea that mental health results from our own doing is valid to some extent but I don't like how this book could impact on some one who suffers with mental health
Brave and honest Being a practising physician, I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Sasz. Really I find it difficult to see where psychiatry can go from here. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bienfe Chiva
A very good perspective on mental illness. I first read this book over 20 years ago for a course module. Since then misplaced the book and wanted to re-read so bought it again. Read more
Mr Szasz will be sadly missed There is no such thing, he's absolutely right! All those charlatan quacks could never face up to their lies and deceptions
Published 14 months ago by Herbie
Interesting Book received in good conditions, as described and after transacton. No necessery any comunication. I recommend this book to any who wants a new perspectiv on theme
Published 16 months ago by Ant�nio Filipe
Good book poor quality The book itself doesn't need a review but sadly the quality of paper is poor and the printing has errors which make a few pages hard to read as the ink seemed as though it was... Read more
Published 16 months ago by jules
very interesting approach worth reading This book was in a very good condition, it arrived on time, generally worth buying if anyone is interested in a topic. A very good source.
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The Nigerian Coalition for International Criminal
Court (NCICC) Friday called on the Federal Government not to withdraw its membership of the Court (ICC).
Nigeria and other countries had given an indication that it would use
the exit door, following what they described politicisation of the operations of the ICC.
The forthcoming extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU) is believed to have been called to consider calls by some African states for Africa to pull out of ICC.
But according to NCICC, while it is understood that the ICC might have erred in some areas, it remains the only permanent court with the authority to act when a state with jurisdiction is unable or unwilling to investigate or persecute an offender.
The relationship between ICC and some African governments has become increasingly strained as the ICC pushes to try Kenya’s President and Vice President for crimes committed during Kenya’s post election violence in 2007-2008.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the Chair, Steering Committee of the Coalition, Chino Obiagwu said, “if Nigeria withdraws from ICC, it would send a wrong signal about Africa’s commitment to promoting human rights and fighting impunity.”
He said it would also portend grave consequences for civilians in Africa who tend to bear the brunt of serious crimes committed in violation of international law.
“We recognize that international justice currently operates unevenly across the globe. In some situations, powerful governments are able to shield their citizens and the citizens of their allies from the ICC’s authority by not joining the ICC or using their veto power at the Security Council to block referrals of situations to the court,” he said.
“We will continue to work with the Nigerian Government and other partners to ensure consistency in the application of international justice, including pressing against double standards as the Security Council. But undercutting justice for crimes where it is possible, because justice is not yet possible in all situations, risks emboldening
those who might commit grave crimes.
Obiagwu added that, “Working to expand, rather than contract, the membership of the ICC is a key step in widening access to justice and sending the message that no one is above the law.

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Verse Escape: Deadlight
Another offering of two tonight, but I promise not to make a habit of it. I probably should have picked one of these only, as they're very similar, but I thought the contrast in form and non-form might be interesting to some readers. Please don't feel compelled to read both, however. There's a lot of poetry out there to enjoy tonight and I don't want to burn anyone out.
I talked at length to what had no ear.
Dead light crunched underfoot
in the burning of the year.
To all I asked, its cloud lips were sealed
and its star eyes were filmed
to blank white wheels.
It had no more breath, no more words than a stone
but yet it was better
than walking alone.
Claudia is hosting a travel schedule of poets from around and through the world tonight. Come join us. Link in is live till midnight tomorrow.
I rewrote this poem into a syllable-counted, repeat-rhymed Welsh form belatedly for Kerry's Sunday Mini-Challenge:Cyhydedd Hir after seeing so many excellent examples by the participants at Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads. (Mama Zen and Karin Gustafson, in particular, wrote some excellent ones.)
I talked, each word dear
to what had no ear
in the burning year, under dead light.
Its cloud lips were sealed
its blank eyes white wheels
all I asked, it peeled from my own sighs.
It had no more home,
no more words than stone
yet walking alone's hard by dead light
I attempt to read both iterations below:
deadlight by Hedgewitch O'theWilds
fetch (2) — n the ghost or apparition of a living person
(from the online World English Dictionary)
Images: Black Moon © joyannjones
Night Holwers, by jurvetson on flick'r
Cropped by joyannjones with gratitude and appreciation for the original work, which can be viewed at the link above.
Labels: 2012, blue bridge to the lost highway, devils dictionary, dVersity, liar's moon, OLN, real toads, wild hunt, witchlight
Susan August 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Wonderful! I love them both and maybe the deadly form one a little bit more as it gets tighter and has footsteps and questions (as in the last line) instead of certainties. Which did you write first? My experience with the form was not good, which I think is because I looked for a topic to suit the form rather than having a lyric that I adapted to the form. And it is beautiful to see them both together!
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Thanks, Susan. I haven't read yours as yet--will be sure to do so. I wrote the top one first--then rewrote it in form as stated.
moonlitpoetic August 14, 2012 at 10:00 AM
absolutely captivating lines..your poetry always shines and burns so bright. the first one rings a bit deeper within though i enjoyed both versions. thank you for such beauty~
Mama Zen August 14, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Damn, damn, damn! I'm gonna need a hat today!
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
I think this one would suit you:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarm13/4539030724/
Sherry Blue Sky August 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM
It was interesting to read both poems and note the changes. I found the first made the biggest impact on me....your images are always so wonderful and original, Hedge. The "dry black moon", the "milk wet sky".
Brian Miller August 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM
nice...i like the first...freedom from form i say...haha...the milk wet sky, really cool touch...and def better than walking alone....really nicely done hedge...
Louise August 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Beautiful...I love both forms but the 1st feels deeper, as Yelena says...more unsettling somehow...great writing :)
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Interesting. I like the second best as it seems tighter, but I agree the first has a bit more detail and nuance--it's really kind of you to read both, Louise(and everyone.)
Claudia August 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM
usually i'm all for free form but this one i found won much with the form...not sure what it is..think i have to go back and re-read but the images seem clearer and tighter in the form variation..
manicddaily August 14, 2012 at 12:19 PM
Hi Joy- first thanks for the kind reference and pairing with MZ (who's Cir-whatever-it-is) was wonderful. I really loved the first one, then the second even more, but I have to say that I may not have liked the second more, had I not read the first. (Ha!) (How's that for waffling?) To be very specific - I think the second works really beautifully but the last stanza of the first poem, I found to be extremely affecting - this idea of it being better to walk with the white/night sky than alone is less clear in the second poem because you weren't able to fit the syllables "better" in. I found that comparative word to be very powerful, and although you say it's hard alone, I couldn't grasp the lonliness as poignantly in that stanza. Very interesting, beautiful, (and well done) both though. Must get back to work! (At office.)
Re my own silly stuff - I added lubricate to mine in place of facilitate - it just popped into my head after reading your kind comment - I don't know if better but a lot more oily. k.
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM
yes, I tried and tried to keep it with the word better even changing the end(and sticking my tongue out at the form) into a mostly unchanged couplet of the first--but in the end I thought posting them both worked best. Thanks for reading, k. (I like lubricate as well.)
darkangelwrites August 14, 2012 at 1:17 PM
I am unable to pick between the two. The first had a lovely rhythm to it, because of the form I suppose. Even though they said the same the second had a more personal feeling to it... like it was alive. That probably doesn't make sense.
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 8:50 PM
That's fine around here, DA, but actually, I think I understood you. You heard me liking the second, in my voice, or in the piece itself, just a bit more, maybe.
Kerry O'Connor August 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM
I love the Cyhydedd Hir in the three line stanza - wanted to try it out myself... the redux really concentrates the ideas. I love the white wheel eyes.. reminds me a bit of The Tinder Box, a most beloved childhood tale.
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Thanks for reminding me of the Tinder Box--I loved the dogs and wished I had one(a magic tinder box.) Thanks for reading Kerry--your own Cyhydedd Hir deserves a shout out as well. Anyone interested will find it at the Mini-Challenge linked above.
John (@bookdreamer) August 14, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Nice to see how a poem can be told in two forms so subtle differences shown
Audrey Howitt aka Divalounger August 14, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Oh--love these both--but am captivated by the rhythm of the second piece--loved it
Grandmother August 14, 2012 at 3:36 PM
This was a difficult form! I couldn't help but read both- liked the first one best for the sound of it. I found it enigmatic but loved the feel of it on my tongue.
ayala August 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM
I love them both..but the first is my favorite, beautiful!
ordinarylifelessordinary August 14, 2012 at 5:28 PM
I really thoroughly enjoyed these, but for me the first free forms was right up my street. The opening stanza with the milk wet sky and the catch just set the scene so well and I was right in there with you. Fantastic!
Fireblossom August 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM
I absolutely love that first one. A thing defined by negatives is still a thing...isn't it?
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Unless it's a no-thing.
poemblaze August 14, 2012 at 7:13 PM
A brilliant poem. The ending is perfect. Even an imaginary friend is better than being utterly alone. I think I prefer the first version, there are no unnecessary words and it carries its own lovely rhythm.
Scott August 14, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Hi- I liked the readings. A whisper. But kind of urgent and powerful. "The Devil takes care of it's own". I'm a rocker at heart. I think I heard a little Joan Jett.
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Yeah--nothing beats rock n roll, for doing what it does. Nice to see someone under the age of sixty playing it too. Glad you enjoyed my hoarse vocals. ;_)
Joan Barrett Roberts August 14, 2012 at 7:49 PM
I loved both poems & it was neat to see the differences created by a change in rhythm & texture. Interesting ~ talking and walking all alone surrounded & inspired by the "black moon weather" ~ would this night have been a new moon? There but unseen like our words being spoken & no one to hear? Lovely work ~ made me wonder right outloud ~ thank you!
kaykuala August 14, 2012 at 8:15 PM
This is interesting Joy! To rewrite in a different form puts discipline in the thinking. It is more challenging certainly!
colleen August 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM
I like the ending and the beginning of the first one best. I like the contrast of dry and wet and the image of a deadlight rather than a headlight.
Arron Shilling August 14, 2012 at 8:29 PM
it would be corny to say you manage to cast a spell
with your readings . . . but i am a child of the CORN - lol
this is a cruel cold duet - a clever couple of complimentry
certainties wafting doubt, for sure . . . the remote nature of the writing trancends the isolation with its craft . . .which craft you ask? - - - the skilled potic kind that escapes its conception by the sheer power of its own concoction . . .
it only works for me if it pollutes my blood with snow crytals and it only chills if you mean it . . . and you convince me with the strength of two imaginations crosswiring that you do . . .
that thing - the element of other that i see - that you see and feel in that b/w picture . . . you explain it and say it, convert it into a written and voiced sculpture . . .
right here - you extend 'the other' and its . . . well . . .
bewitching - ok i am pushing my luck . . . but i do leave here
haunted by your skills
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Then my work here is done. Giving you a buzz is what it's all about.
I thought that second picture captured all kinds of stuff about my relationships. (It's coyotes, actually, but looks like a couple of fetches to me.) And this was just nonsense compared to the serious stuff you lay down, Arron, but I'm grateful to have you reading and the buzzing is cream. Thanks.
Arron Shilling August 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM
apologies for those damned typos - its 2;30am and these matchsticks that prop my lids are hindering my screen view :D
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 8:34 PM
I speak fluent typonese--no worries.
C Rose August 14, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Loved the re-work, though the first iteration is still wonderful poetry in my view. I didnt have a change to hear the spoken, but in the revised your opening lines gave me that melting feeling inside. I adore how you can execute the imagery my friend, always have. Send love and peace ~ Rose
Marbles in My Pocket August 14, 2012 at 8:54 PM
Both are awesome. Beautifully vivid!
halfwaybetweenthegutter August 14, 2012 at 9:01 PM
I love the way you use words, although I'm stumped on one thing; what does "fetch" mean?
hedgewitch August 14, 2012 at 9:04 PM
Heaven August 14, 2012 at 9:02 PM
I like both versions ~ Thanks for sharing them ~
Steve King August 14, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Two different impressions here for me too...the first seems tighter to me, perhaps because each stanza works it's way down to a short final line. I'm not really familiar with the form, but the second poem's longer final lines see to allow more room for reflection...In either case, they are fine, intelligent constructions that give much to resonate with me..very nicely done, as always.
punnypalaver August 14, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Liked both of these, mysterious, yet comforting. The second was my favorite. I read it aloud with an Irish accent--rich. I love the singsong of the Welsh. Now, I'll listen to your reading. . .
punnypalaver August 14, 2012 at 10:03 PM
Yes, the second sings!
Semaphore August 14, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Both versions of the poem have strengths, stemming from their structure - the first more free-flowing, the second more controlled but more musical. I'm a structural poet, even when writing free verse, so I would bend with those preferring door number two. Either way, good write!
Dana Dampier August 14, 2012 at 11:22 PM
I wouldn't dream of reading just one!Both are wonderful, but I have to say the second one is my favorite. I'm for free form usually, but the poem just has this certain something extra. It's tighter yes, but it's more revealing at the same time.
Fred Rutherford August 15, 2012 at 1:59 AM
really nice work Joy. I do things like this a lot, more often with my paintings but with poetry as well, at least for me, some lines/thoughts are too good and you want to see how they fit in with others, anyhow, nice to see another out there that seems to at least, do something similar. Great lines, love the use of fetch.
vivinfrance August 15, 2012 at 2:00 AM
I preferred the first which is lovely - but then you know my dislike of syllable-counting! Please, what is "your fetch"? I envisaged a dog carrying a ball!
hedgewitch August 15, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I'm sorry viv--I'll stick the definition in the main body of the post--a fetch is an archaic term for a "sending" of a dead person, not exactly a ghost, since ghosts are passives,while fetches, they have come for something. Thanks for reading.
flipsiderecords August 15, 2012 at 2:09 AM
"I talked at length to what had no ear." ... That is a poem on its own. What a great bit of philosophy. If you think about it, most things/people do not have ears. They have miniscule information receptors, which they use at the base minimum---and then only so that they will some guidance in what to say next. People are mouths, not ears. They want to speak, not hear. They want to teach, not learn.
I prefer the first poem because of the wording in this particular line.
hedgewitch August 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM
That is so true, Shawna. And lovers(dead or alive) are the worst. Thanks for your insights, always valuable to me.
1emeraldcity August 15, 2012 at 3:23 AM
I have to agree with most...the first version, for me is the winner. But there are never any losers in your poetry, Hedge. And yes, better to walk with this dark light than alone. A chllingly beautiful work!
Marian August 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM
after 47 comments, i can't imagine what else there is to say... but i love how you did this. seems natural, despite your confession of finding the form intimidating. i felt like it was challenging to make the form not too cutesy or limerick-like. you certainly accomplished that. yay!
hedgewitch August 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Thanks, marian. The 47th comment means as much or more than the first to me. I agree--the form wants to be unserious in English--the rhyme is so frequent, I think, along with the syllable-enforced cadence. Yours was excellent.
insanebloom August 15, 2012 at 8:54 AM
love the imagery in here.
Mark Kerstetter August 15, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Interesting to read the comments. For me version one is just as musical, just as tight, and I prefer it, for one because it's far more effective to let the word "alone" stand alone at the end.
hedgewitch August 15, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Thanks, Mark. I wrote three or four different versions of the end, and I agree I think the first one has the most impact, and is the closest to what I was trying to say. Thanks for reading.
Archna Sharma August 15, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Very similar yet the shutter in the end of the second lingers and I appreciate the comfort in the end of the first. Both are gorgeous, I especially like the "milk wet sky" and am crazy about the "black moon". :)
lookingforroots August 15, 2012 at 11:04 AM
I like both very much, but maybe prefer the first... Still. Wow. Tight and intense. Well penned!
Sue Judd August 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Great write, I loved the re-write in a different form, not sure I can choose between the two!
adan August 15, 2012 at 2:33 PM
interesting comparison / contrast
though i did feel i responded best to the first version -
yet, esp liked, "all I asked, it peeled from my own sighs" in the second ;-)
nice work, thank you ;-)
John Allen Richter August 15, 2012 at 4:31 PM
So hard to choose..... reading alone made me feel more comfortable with the first version, but listening made the cadence of the second much warmer. The amazing meter and use of the long"i" vowel, soft rhyme, at the end of each triplet makes this a perfect repetition..... Hearing your voice bringing it to life was an absolute pleasure Joy...... Kudos!
Raven August 16, 2012 at 7:36 AM
I love how you treated this myth. It is deeply personalized and I like that.
beckykilsby August 16, 2012 at 8:14 AM
Very interesting to see how the two forms twisted the outlook Joy.. you've made me want to try the latter form.. thank you!
myheartslovesongs.com August 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM
stunning, as always. i tend to prefer the less structured form, but that's just a personal preference.


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Caroline: witty, strong, single and missing her ‘O’, has just moved into a new apartment for a fresh start. She then discovers that her neighbour’s bedroom is a thin wall away from hers. As she has never met this neighbour, but knows him so well from his nightly activities with different women, Caroline nicknames him ‘Wallbanger’, and guessing by the title of the book you know that he will soon be involved in this story.
As Caroline’s sleepless nights go on, I found myself wanting to know more about ‘Wallbanger’. Especially what he looks like, and so does Caroline. Soon Caroline is fed up of her sleepless nights and her missing ‘O’. The only way she can stop her jealousy of woman achieving theirs every night with her mysterious neigbour is to go tell him to be quiet and this is how we meet Simon. At first the two don’t get along very well at first but soon decide to call a truce and become friends.
With their witty banter and lots of baking, they soon become almost inseparable and desperate to see one another after Simon has been away on business but they are still just friends. Although we all know they like one another from the tension that is felt whenever they are together. It soon becomes a game of will they, won’t they. Allow written well, I still feel like it dragged on a little longer than I would liked.
In the end they finally get together. Not leaving enough for us to see them as a couple, but I’m happy to know that their will be a sequel out in June of this year that will focus on their new relationship.
Buy this for Kindle at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wallbanger-Alice-Clayton-ebook/dp/B00BEH3B0Y/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
I genuinely believe that my heart broke while I was reading this book. ‘When It Rains@ is so beautifully written, that you can feel every emotion that Kate, the main character, feels. I feel like this book is about finding hope again, when you thought it was gone forever, and how one person can change your life. Two people in this case. One who destroys it and the other who rebuilds it.
After a terrible incident that happens to Kate, a happy, outgoing, high school girl, we are skipped on two years. This isn’t the same Kate anymore. She has pushed everyone out of her life. She doesn’t like to leave her house unless it’s for work or with her only friend Beau.
Beau and Kate have been neighbors since they were five and because of this they know everything about each other, except Kate hasn’t told him, or anyone, what happened to her two years ago and because of this it causes Kate to turn Beau down when he confesses his love for her just before he leaves for college. When he leaves Kate is left by herself with only her job, at a diner, to give her something to do…until Asher walks in. Asher is what Kate needs so that she can have hope again.
I kind of felt annoyed when Kate started to fall for Asher. Only because I wanted her to be with Beau. I think it was because the whole idea of next-door neighbor sweethearts. However, as the love between Kate and Asher grows I fall too.
Then we are hit with a twist I don’t think anyone could see coming. I will not spoil it for anyone as I think you will only capture the raw emotions I felt reading first hand.
‘When It Rains’ is now in my top 5 favorite books. I cannot honestly think of anything I disliked about this read. It’s one of those books that stays with you after you’ve turned the last page.
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I like when books dive straight in within the first chapter or so. Saves time looking for that hook to pull you in and this book kicks off right at the start when Avery runs into Cam. Literally.
Avery has a dark past that holds her back from what/who she really wants. Friendships/relationships and even just socializing by going to parties, Avery’s past is always in her way.
Cam is a cocky guy, but in a good way. He is confident but not in a flashy way. I’d say he was comfortable being himself. I like this trait in a guy. He isn’t afraid to put himself out there. Which he does for Avery.
Cam starts to fall for Avery immediately, and after being assigned her partner in astronomy class, he decides to ask her out. And she says no. That doesn’t stop Cam from asking her again at least twice a week for three months.
The only problem is, Avery can’t see past…well…her past. Having been through a traumatic incident five years ago and having parents that, as the reader, you want to slap in the face, you can’t blame Avery from being a little scared.
However, Cam is ready to take her hand and guide her through everything that is in her way to move on from the incident holding her back on becoming the person she wants to be.
Of course this book contains the ups and downs of all the usual crap relationships have, but ‘Wait For You’ just feels different. It pulls you in to a point where you are living the experience with the characters. You’re wanting them to make it and you’re wanting them to trust one another about their pasts that you’re shouting at the book.
If you haven’t read this book I highly recommend ‘Wait For You’. It’s one of those books that when you finish, you let out a breath and feel satisfied that you took the time to read it.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Will Cooper
My Man Candy this week has to be Will Cooper from the ‘Slammed’ series by Colleen Hoover.
Over the past couple days I have been addicted to this series. I honestly cannot get enough.
Will Cooper is the main guy in this series and everything you would want in one. He is tall, dark haired Michigan man. He comes into the story when Layken (the main character whose eyes we see the story through) moves across the street. He has a love of writing poetry which to me is something that makes me weak at the knees. Through his poetry we also see that he isn’t afraid to share his emotions, which is kind of a helpful trait in guys. I think with him being so open hearted throughout the series really makes me fall for him.
I’m currently reading the third book in the series called ‘This Girl’ and by the way I have been absorbed into these books it will probably be finished by tonight. I think that to create a great book series like Hoover has, there needs to be a character that you don’t want to be separated from. In this book there is two. Layken and Will but mostly Will.
Read the first book in the series ‘Slammed’ – ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slammed-ebook/dp/B008VDJFFY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376919165&sr=1-1&keywords=slammed
I have no idea why it took me so long to read this book. Friends of mine have been getting on at me to read this, saying ‘You will not be disappointed.’ However, I think that’s why I put it off for so long. What if I didn’t like it? And now I’m sat here, after reading what can now be described as one of my favorite books, wondering why I even bother to listen to myself.
When Layken (beautiful character name) arrives in her new town, in Michigan from Texas, she meets her neighbor Will. Of course there is chemistry, you just know that this is the guy she will fall for, and she does. Then her first day as a Senior, at her new school, she finds Will or ‘Mr Cooper’ is her teacher.
The book revolves around Slam Poetry (also known as performance poetry). It made this book really stand out for me. While reading the book and the poetry that is being performed in some scenes, I started to read the whole book as a poem. I don’t know if this is what Hoover intended (not all of it is written in the style of poetry). I think I just found the story so beautiful and the way Hoover exposes the characters reminds me of the art of poetry.
While through the struggles of this love story, with Will being Layken’s teacher, we also see her family struggles. How she copes and does not cope with certain aspects of life that fall into her path. Will not only becomes someone Layken is falling for, that she can’t have, but also her rock. I think having him there to help her intensifies my love for them to become a couple and wishing that it could work out, if it wasn’t for him needing his job and her finishing her Senior year.
I can’t wait to read ‘Point Of Retreat’, the next book in this series, to see where their relationship leads.
Buy ‘Slammed’ for ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slammed-ebook/dp/B008VDJFFY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376857353&sr=1-1&keywords=slammed
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Ellison Snapshot: Home again and the 4th of July!
Ellison Snapshot
This blog is a daily journal of everything that occurs with the household. It will focus on Denise (my wife, and mother of our wonderful children), Devin who is 9, Desirae who is 7, Deanna who is 3 year and me. Sometimes the content may be ordinary, but is always something worth remembering!
Home again and the 4th of July!
The made it home safe on Saturday and it was really nice to see them again. Everything rolled into the 4th of July celebration with Denise's traditional BBQ ribs, dessert and the California City fire works show. We hand an outstanding meal and a pretty darn good fireworks show. I think we are always impressed with the quality of the fireworks that California City puts on.
After having a few weeks of quite time it was really neat to have all the commotion of the kids back in the house. It is really funny how it seems like they have never been gone and been gone forever all at the same time! So Nana and Max will head back home tomorrow. It's really too bad that we can't visit more but that darn work things seems to always get in the way.
After that, mid next week Denise and the kids will head on the next part of summer vacation where they travel to Oklahoma to visit family! Unfortunately I have to stay here but at least this is going to give them a longer trip instead of the typical two week. I really wish I was going but oh well... posted by Duane @ 10:53 PM 2 comments
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The Navy's Grade 36 Bureaucrat: The solution to China rests in The LEGO® Movie
The solution to China rests in The LEGO® Movie
The LEGO® Movie, from LEGO®
If you haven't seen The LEGO® Movie already, you need to. I grew up with LEGO® bricks and have passed on the building tradition to my kids. I took two of my kids to the theater to see the movie, which they loved so much that we bought it. My wife, always a skeptic and definitely not a Master Builder, had her doubts, but after watching the movie she agreed that it was awesome.
(I spoil the movie below, so don't continue reading if you want to preserve the surprise)
All in favor of stamping out the Master Builders, raise your hand
The LEGO® Movie does more than describe the battle between the creative Master Builders and Lord Business. In an uncanny way, it gives a fairly accurate portrayal of China and the United States battling for supremacy in the Pacific. Not only can we draw similarities to the current situation, but we can see the desired solution as well.
First, we have to remember that the Communist Party is currently in trouble. At the beginning of the movie, Lord Business (China) finds the magical Kragle, despite the best efforts of Visuvius. Tired of all the mixing between Lego sets, Lord Business wants to fix everything in the perfect place, arranged completely how he likes it. Not surprisingly, the Chinese Communist Party desires its own Kragle for the Chinese people. They want a permanent place in government and complete control over how Chinese people act, what they believe and even eat, in a China where the common person more and more doesn't identify with the Party. Just as Lord Business sees flaws when LEGO® sets mix, the Communist Party sees a challenge to their authority from Western ideas, and will do anything to fix those flaws quickly.
The Kragle is how China fixes holes in The Great Firewall
All is not awesome below the surface. The movie's hero, Emmet, is stuck in his surrounding's trappings. He listens to the same music every day, buys the same coffee and works on a construction team that, with few exceptions, doesn't have much of their own personal identities. You could paint each LEGO® figure like a Han Chinese person and their lives would be what you read in Xinhua or PLA Daily. A little red book accessory in every LEGO® Minifigure's hand would complete the picture.
This guy could easily become a LEGO® Minifigure!
But everything is not awesome once Emmet steps out of line. Soon he joins the ranks of the Master Builders, dangerous creative types that don't want to follow the rules. These Master Builders like to mingle, swapping ideas and creating new sets all the time. While the product isn't always beautiful to look at (MetalBeard is fairly hideous), the point is that the Master Builders are free to express themselves and can do so without causing harm. At worst, Green Lantern gets on Superman's nerves just a bit too much.
Everything is awesome, unless you're a non-Chinese South China Sea claimant
Because this freedom conflicts with the master plan in Lord Business' head, it can't be allowed to survive. The Master Builder's are rounded up and tapped for their powers. Notice that Lord Business doesn't kill them immediately, because despite the threat their powers are still useful to him. This coincides with Chinese economic thinking, where it is a "free market" with Chinese aspects. Lord Business and the Chinese Communist Party would be happy if everyone just followed the instructions/rules. This of course can't happen with free thinkers, hence the inevitable conflict.
The fate of the F-35 and Littoral Combat Ship in any future fight
Emmet has to put together a coalition to fight Lord Business. He's not powerful enough on his own, despite being told he's The Special. That makes the other's jealous, but because they are allowed to express themselves, they tolerate it and move on. The coalition comes with different abilities and they do a decent job of slowing Lord Business down, but in the end it isn't enough. Whether Emmet represents the US, some sort of ASEAN or Pacific coalition, or the average American given a daily trophy for being special is up for debate.
Coalition operations feel a lot like this. Multiple European nations could be Unikitty and the Crazy Cat Lady.
The real solution is in bringing Lord Business into the fold, and the same is true for China. The Master Builders could fight Lord Business all day, but even if they defeated him, some other LEGO® super villain would construct from the scattered LEGO® bricks to attack again. By persuading Lord Business to contribute to the LEGO® world in a meaningful way, the Master Builders create a better world in the end.
Just like Emmet, working in the construction field to make a better world...by pounding big rocks into smaller ones.
Secretary Carter said essentially the same thing on 30 May: "And that’s the theme of my remarks today: the United States wants a shared regional architecture that is strong enough, capable enough, and connected enough to ensure that all Asia-Pacific peoples and nations have the opportunity to rise – and continue to rise – in the future. The United States wants a future in which an Indonesian fisherman, an energy executive from Malaysia, an entrepreneur from Singapore, a small business owner in California, and a Chinese businesswoman – just to name a few – have the security and opportunity to rise and prosper. And the United States wants to protect the rights of all countries, whether large or small, to win…to rise, to prosper and to determine their own destiny."
Even if those countries are like Green Lantern.
Sometimes we let other countries play in a coalition, even when we don't want to
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AutoZone wants SCO case put on hold - CNET
The auto parts retailer answers the SCO Group's legal push against big Linux users by asking to postpone the copyright violation lawsuit against it.
28 April 2004 7:06 am AEST
AutoZone has asked a court to put a hold on the SCO Group's Linux lawsuit against it--a case that could have repercussions for any company using the open-source operating system.
SCO sued AutoZone in March, arguing that the auto parts retailer infringed on SCO Unix copyrights through its use of Linux.
In its response, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Nevada, AutoZone said the case should be stayed until there are results from three related SCO lawsuits that involve IBM, Red Hat and Novell.
"The resolution of each of these prior filed actions will significantly clarify, if not resolve, SCO's claims against AutoZone," the auto parts retailer said in its motion.
Although SCO's case against AutoZone has implications for many Linux users, these could be restricted, because AutoZone used SCO's OpenServer version of Unix until three years ago. "In 2001, SCO told AutoZone that it would no longer be offering support for its OpenServer product. AutoZone was therefore forced to switch to a new operating system," the company said in its motion. AutoZone chose Red Hat's version of Linux as a replacement and completed the transition in 2002, it said.
SCO launched its high-profile legal attack on Linux with a $5 billion suit against IBM that asserts that Big Blue violated its Unix contract with SCO by moving Unix technology to Linux. IBM has countersued, arguing that SCO violated Linux's license and IBM's patents.
In turn, Red Hat sued SCO in August, seeking a court judgment that its version of Linux doesn't violate SCO copyrights. That case has been put on hold, until there's a resolution in the IBM suit.
And in January, SCO filed suit against Novell, an earlier owner of Unix intellectual property, in an effort establish ownership of the Unix copyrights Novell says it still holds.
In its filing, AutoZone requested that it be given more information about SCO's claims, if the Nevada court decides that the AutoZone case should proceed in parallel with the others.
"SCO's complaint broadly alleges that AutoZone's distribution and copying of Linux infringes SCO's alleged rights in Unix; however, it is impossible to tell from the face of the complaint how AutoZone's actions infringe any rights in Unix or what portions of Linux or Unix are at issue," the motion said.
Separately, AutoZone also asked that the case be moved to U.S. District court in Western Tennessee. "Although AutoZone is incorporated in Nevada, virtually all of AutoZone's relevant witnesses and documents are located in Memphis, Tennessee, where AutoZone is headquartered," the company said in another motion.
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