White as a hand in the dark She lifts the lamp to see his face The silver ladle of his throat The boy the beast and the butterfly The sea is a morgue The needle and the gun These things float in blood that has no name The telegraph poles are crosses on the line Rusted...
Russia on the other hand would rather sell us a giant mining machine than a ship load of domestic junk so I say we leave ourselves open only by lowering our expectations. Building up local industry was something I was once very keen on, but it meant maintaining a high degree of independen...
We keep seeing the telegraph poles along the way. Some are sitting precariously over the lake. I like taking their picture. We pass places like Salmon Arm and Lake Mara. Salmon Arm is home to the longest wooden wharf in North America. I didn’t see it. Craigellachie- Last spike for the...
Holiday music booms over the speakers, the hand poles are wrapped in red and white paper to look like giant candy canes, and jolly ol’ St. Nick -- wearing his seat belt, of course -- rides on a sleigh placed on an open flatbed car in the middle of the train. The train, which ...
It is difficult to consider the tragedy of heroism and betrayal without telegraphing a strong point of view on the subject. And so we come to NZS(Narodowe Sily Zbrojne; Eng. National Armed Forces), which tenaciously fought both the German and Communist Soviet forces during World War II in ...
When the old king--who was suspicious of the English, their railways and telegraphs--died, Purun Dass stood high with his young successor, who had been tutored by an Englishman; and between them, though he always took care that his master should have the credit, they established schools ...
daring every vocabulary to twist his eloquent tongue.”The Quick and the Dead(1961) might better have been titledThe Dead and the Slowas it’s the story of a man who only figures out he’s dead halfway through the book. Its subject and style left theTelegraph’sreviewer unsure of what...