Of the many short stories Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is likely the most cerebral. There is little action to carry the plot, no trips into a catacomb, no descent into a whirlpool, no crimes to be solved. Everything that occurs is told by the narrator. D...
The poems reveal a thorough knowledge of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist sources as well as of poetry and literature. Han-shan never professes a particular creed but freely borrows from all the traditions. Indeed he was a consistent critic of rituals and monks. In one poem he speaks of encou...
Two thousand fourteen was a tough year for me. Can’t say it was necessarily a bad year, but it was the year in which my father was newly gone, the year in which his concert hall suffered a flood (at my negligence; in order to save money I hadn’t properly winterized it), and ...
The new town hall was opened by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Arthur Greenwood MP, on September 17th 1938 and architect Percy Thomas was later awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for his work. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 197...
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“comfortable,” out of doors. But inside the hall there was nothing to remind us the war of the elements. The building was dedicated to the Goddess of Harmony, (or a twin sister) and nought interfered to mar the splendors amid which her gentle reign was inaugurated. Cloaks and jewels ...
Of that more sober Age and Mind, When larger sized Men did stoop To enter at a narrow loop; As practising, in doors so strait, To strain themselves through Heavens Gate. And surely when the after Age Shall hither come in Pilgrimage, ...
' she picked it up and spoke the spell. Suddenly, a little 'Monkey' man with short golden hair in a pink shirt, appeared in front of her. He was Mr. Monkey Libai, the elf of Jane's life protector, the famous poet from a thousand years ago. Jane originally was the princess of ...
Last year, we to a wonderful new home provided for a special season in our lives. We no longer have a long country road. , I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog. Often, perhaps a thousand times, that has occurred in my mind. all events in our...
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