His best-known novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night also remains important for an intelligent interest. These works give a picture of expatriate life. His non-fictional work, The Crack-Up, is considered a funeral sermon and self-autopsy and an analysis of his life and works. It...
Short stories ain’t that. Ideas for short stories work very badly for novels. Trust me on this, I’ve seen a few that the author expanded, one of which I consider one of the most perfect short stories ever written (Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson) and it ….. just fizzles. Short...
along with the funeral directive, she asked be given to the minister to help in preparing his remarks. “You know you write your eulogy by the way you live,” she said. “But remember, now,nobodywants to listen to a forty-eight hour sermon!” ...
I would give the soup for free to many of those people and and when they asked for the sandwich I would offer bread, good bread and explain to them that this was what we had to do for free food. For quite a time there were no prices for food there and a pretty hefty price for ...
Nothing more is known about his Eisenach career; but he is said to have been an unusually good treble and probably sang under Kantor A.C. Dedekind at St Georg, where his father made instrumental music before and after the sermon and where his relation (2) Johann Christoph Bach (13) was...
On October 29 Vincent delivers his first Sunday sermon. As Vincent's religious fervour increase, his physical and mental state take a downturn. 1877 Vincent leaves England and takes a temporary job in a bookshop in Dordrecht. As with his Goupil & Cie position, Vincent shows little interest ...
1495747908 JONES ROBERT; SQUIRE BARCLAY WILLIAM (EDITOR) The Muses Gardin for Delights: Or the First Book of Ayres GBP 18.001495746884 SYMONDS J.A. (SIR PHILIP SIDNEY) Sir Philip Sidney GBP 10.001495746885 SIMPSON LOUIS Caviare at the Funeral GBP 7.00...
With his father before him, Isaac Hassler had been settled for some time previously at Jouchunsthal in Bohemia, but had returned to Nuremberg, the original home of the family. In the funeral sermon of Isaac it is recorded of him that he had 'carefully brought up and trained his son Hans...
“On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to me: 8 maids a-milking.” For the significance of each day of Christmas, see:Good Housekeeping.com.(The 8 Maids A-milking are the eight beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount): ...
End of sermon, thanks for listening. I just kind of needed to get it out there. It wasn’t the point of this but if you’re the praying type, send some mojo out for my friend and his wife. God knows who they are. PS. If this post has moved you in some way, why not nail ...