If I ever get a chance to write my memoirs, I think I will name them either: What to Do If You Are Surrounded by the Entire Bolivian Army and Have No More Bullets or Snapshots: Twenty-seven 8 x 10 Color Glossy Photographs with Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back of Each One Explaining What Each One Was to be Used as Evidence against Us.
Posts tagged “books”
Missing Fish
For weekend fishermen, there are many tall tales about “the big one that got away.” The results of a new study indicate that big fish are indeed hard to catch. But disturbingly, the results suggest that’s because the world’s large fish–tuna, marlin, swordfish, sharks, cod and halibut among them–have been so exploited by industrial fisheries
Buying Good Books
In which I buy too many books. Again.
To Have and Have Not
The novel breaks from the traditional five act dramatic plot sequence.
Thomas Hardy
On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”, an essay from 1996
Eat the Rich
A quick book review
The First Time I Got Paid For It
A lovely book about screenwriting
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In destinies sad or merry, True men can but try.
Ancient Texts
I’ve seen this linked in several places recently, but it’s such a great story I wanted to link it here too. The villa probably belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar and one of the rulers of the Roman republic. In AD79, a century after his death, it was buried under 30 metres
“They that go down to the Sea in Ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.”
Psalm 107