As August Nears...
Tuesday July 29, 2008
It's been a sweltering hot day, but now the lights o the city are spread out before me--from this 6th-story window... And, August is just a few days away. What then?
The month of August has been associated with bad luck. It's the "month of the crazy dog." What has your experience been with the month of August?
In "August," Dorthy Parker wrote:
When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.
What are you reading in August? Happy Reading!
The month of August has been associated with bad luck. It's the "month of the crazy dog." What has your experience been with the month of August?
In "August," Dorthy Parker wrote:
When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.
What are you reading in August? Happy Reading!
Comments
I’m reading Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy.I read A Wizard of Earthsea years ago but never completed the series.Yesterday and surrounded by three dogs and a puppy I was trying to read the first part of this trilogy
in the cold loungeroom [it’s winter where I am] The dogs were quarelling and I couldn’t concentrate so I decided to read a chapter out loud.It worked, the dogs went quiet but more than that I discovered how much more interesting the writing became.My attention was drawn to the complex sentence structure and the strange magical feel of Ged’s life drew me in.Does anyone else do this? I’s say give it a go,obviously not for the whole book but every now and then.for the aural stimulation.
I am reading Eating Fire, Tasting Blood, An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust. Along with my other Native American studies, this book has proven to be a real eye opener to the horror exacted upon our Native American friends over the last 500 years. Why in August? I guess the heat is on to understand this holocaust through the eyes of the Native Americans instead of through the tainted history books from which I was taught in Elementary school.
Talk about turning up the heat, this book is doing it! Oh, and it is also my birthday this month, go figure.