Despite all the time I’ve wasted scrolling through Facebook, I’ve received more from the site than I’ve lost. It’s allowed me to reconnect with students I taught thirty years ago. Last night I was chatting with a member of the class of 1982. She gave me permission to link to her website. She didn’t give … Continue reading »
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Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
By popular request, here’s a link to Leonard Cohen singing “Hallelujah.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q Is this all right, Kaye? *** Image by Rama (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.0-fr (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons *** Related Articles Leonard Cohen’s hallelujah moment (telegraph.co.uk) Inside the Weird Journey of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ (newser.com) Exclusive Book Excerpt: Leonard Cohen Writes ‘Hallelujah’ in ‘The Holy … Continue reading »
An Evening of Patience
I spent the evening at a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience or, Bunthorne’s Bride and feel compelled to share. Patience is the story of two poets–Reginald Bunthorne, an idyllic poet; and Archibald Grosvenor, a fleshly poet–both of whom love Patience, the milkmaid. Patience, a happy girl who at first says she has never loved anyone except her … Continue reading »
Day 26: Emily, tippling
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the foxglove’s door, When butterflies renounce … Continue reading »
