Capt. John Yossarian of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The only sane response to an insane world is to be insane.
PROMPT: Fictional Character
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Author Archives: B Gourley
Monsoon Carnival [Haiku]
BOOKS: “Fine Clothes to the Jew” by Langston Hughes
Fine Clothes to the Jew by Langston HughesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Available online – Lehigh University
This, Hughes’s second poetry collection, is different from the first in that it leans more heavily into blues music structure and into dialectal language use. It’s not that these didn’t feature in Weary Blues, but in this collection one can read most of the poems with a blues shuffle riff playing in one’s head (and, if you do, you will hear how Muddy Waters might have belted them out in a Blues club.)
While it’s fun to read, this collection is not nearly so deep or evocative as the collection that preceded. Still, if you like poetry and / or the Blues, you’ll definitely find this to be a worthwhile read.
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The After Hours
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PROMPT: Reason
No. I do not think everything happens for a reason, but I do think it is beneficial to see the positive in challenging life events. Both approaches serve to keep one from feeling victimized by life, but the latter doesn’t require that one believe in some grand architect twiddling the dials on one’s life events — and isn’t a Panglossian rationalization.
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PROMPT: Home Decoration Style
I was unaware such a thing existed. I would say “Post-apocalyptic Chic.”
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DAILY PHOTO: Shadow-Mottled Mountain
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PROMPT: Song Lyric
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
Keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Might be later to win
For the times they are a changin'
From “The Times They Are a-Changin'” Bob Dylan (1963 – from the eponymously named album.)
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