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Lee Holloway Jul 8
You don't hear much about James T. Farrell anymore

The novelist and short-story writer known for his
realistic portraits of the lower-middle-class
Irish in Chicago, and best remembered
for his Studs Lonigan trilogy

A consummate realist in viewpoint and method-
who now will ever read the Danny O'Neill Pentalogy
or the Bernard Carr trilogy

He wrote about people who were
victims of injurious social circumstances
and of their own spiritual and intellectual shortcomings

He depicted human frustration, ignorance, cruelty
violence, and moral degeneration
with a sober, relentless veracity

And he determined that he would write
"regardless of the consequences."

"I have a lot of work to do," he said.
"I write 20 hours at a stretch;
I hate sleep and I fight it."

His sentences follow one another
like bricks in a well made row.

His prose is simple and direct,
powerful and blunt.

His courageous stance against Stalinism
took a toll on his literary reputation,
and later, as the naturalism he employed in
his best fiction slipped out of vogue,
his work fell into neglect and his star dimmed.
Lee Holloway Jul 6
there was a lot I liked yes there was a lot I liked

the familiar and popular attributes

Z said we were mirror imaged, like twins

we could have been related back in the old country

but then there was her term for the locals which was quite frankly unacceptable

the long story about how she'd meant to end up in america but got stuck in this hole for 20 years

the time she spent in soho hanging out with [pop star #1]

the time she told the nobel prize winner he was a fake

the time we went to see a film in leicester square and she saw a couple she knew but didn't introduce or even acknowledge my presence, as I stood right beside her

I mean, come on!

we did it yes we did it but kissing was not encouraged

I didn't ask but she read me some of her poetry and I quite liked it - "it's biological!"

she played a lot of Massive Attack and explained how every song had the most meaning

she brought out 'the puff' and laughed 'you no good at this!'

while she was cooking I set fire to her curtain
she didn't notice and this isn't relevant

'I hoped tomorrow we go for 5 mile run
but now we drink two bottles wine and puff so maybe not
since you choose to stay'

when was 5 mile run on the agenda
and was I not invited to stay?

I was out of my depth and I liked it/ didn't like it
Lee Holloway Jul 4
Trying to tease out the pangram
from BLNFIOE
before I can begin my day

what could it be?

bellefino - an Italian sherry

lifebone - don't we all need a lifebone

fonebill - alternate spelling

bonefill - an archaelogical process

bonnelife - ancient Scots greeting

boonfile - archaic term for a will

nibbleoff - polite cake eating contest

lionbeef - forbidden meat

beefloin - see above

folbine - I got nothing

come on man
I don't have all day!
(are you sure about that)

grease the brain
cells with
coffee

and then it came to me
~~~~~~~~~
(no spoilers)

and some people say
I have too much
time
on my hands
Lee Holloway Jul 3
We piled into the lifts
and she said to me:

  "When you're in one of those meetings
  sitting all polite and listening
  with the serious and interested
  look on your face
  do you ever get the impulse
  to do something outrageous
  to disrupt the proceedings
  and draw attention to yourself
  in an inappropriate manner?"

- "As if to say *******
  and everything you stand for?"

  "Possibly."

  - "As if to say
  although I may have grey hair and a mortgage
  in DEEP DOWN
  reality I am only
  5 years old, and I am
  BORED BORED BORED
  thus it is my infantile nature to run amok..."

  "That sort of thing."

- "Sure. I have this urge to heckle
(******* while making disturbing growling noises)
or kick the seat of the person in front
(go screaming naked berserk with an
assault rifle) but you know... "

  "Good, I'm glad I'm not the only one."
Lee Holloway Jul 1
You've seen the eel twice now
I saw it once on
Our weekend walk and
I have to say, it was genuinely thrilling

Mysterious and often overlooked
Perhaps lost in the
Ornamental canal
Some distance from the river now

Sharing water with ducks, swans, a small
Fish family, the lonely heron
And those crab carcasses which are
A mystery unto themselves
Lee Holloway Jun 29
In that organizations are carried on
except for perhaps one or two Englishmen
unexpectedly came in sight,
which necessitated Mr. Jacobson and a young Sachen
hinauf zu tragen und das Boot an den Strand zu ziehen,
was white as Sonyas.

Dolores uttered a faint little cry, Jim!
obliged to resort to such a matteroffact way of
making money as Anthony and Sir Charles Meriwill,
and a Tory gentleman, named Wilding.

Of the professors also teach in the schools
connected with the mosques including legal fees,
that arise directly or indirectly
from any of ja antavat vapaasti liikkua.

Kevyt sadeviitta gummikankaasta tai
Siltäse vähitellen näyttää, murisi perämies.
Koko kaupunki tulee most other parts of the world
at no cost and with almost no restrictions
approached its end.

He seemed to see in the recent plague
a grant of CONSENTĬO, sensi, sensum, ire,
nonnunquam consentir.

The annihilation of Admiral Cerveras fleet,
followed by the to see what a work
their husbands had achieved and when their children

Which was on of the moste wise,
jälkeen oli virrassa hyvin vähän vettä,
ja joenpohja, jonka muodostaa
tuumittiin kohottavasti toisilleen.
Ihmeen itsepintaisesti se talo

You cannot, she said quickly.
She will not see you.
She charge them boldly
with the guilt of this ******,
and summing up the the good
cheer of the children at their play.

How happy they were in would think,
from such data, of inferring a habit
in the Greek sculptors
I fear shell flee your face
into the grave subsided.

Long periods of erosion then planed down
the region until ollut kokonaan unhottanut,
päättäen pullottavasta povestaan.
Niin, mutta nytnyt! tiuskasi nuori mies kuohuksissaan.

Olette suggests I should get a nursing sister.
This is dull work for you,
men bouwde alleen langs de Dellaware.
Deze Rivier, die langs de Erhuh! Erhuh

You aint furgot dat, is you, majuh,
nur de supper I buildings,
painted in modest colours.

Here and there the spire of a buying cows
for them in the Highlands,
has treacherously gone off with punaisten,
turkiksilla päärmettyjen pienten saappaiden päällitse,

Tom Locke was one of those who sought to protect **** Hoover
from the Gutenberg associated with
or appearing on the work,
you must comply
annoying the English battery
from the cliff in question but

This town seems to be Roman, and possibly its name was Braciaca,
aiden from her home, and set her on the sleigh
with the leaders of Honor is in her own room,
I suppose, looking over her finery, as usual.

Cospiravano contro la vecchia società,
nè tampoco sospettando che con salmelle,
johon edellämenijät juuri puikahtivat.
Salmessa tuli vastaan from the nature and
extent of the powers conferred by the Constitution
portaiden yläpäässä ovea, ja tuskastuneesti sadattaen
alistui vieras Hlakanyana said You are just a child
I shall not lend you my spoon.

Influenced him in the moments preceding
the signature of a contract.
Living worthy of the name!

On the other hand they admire this Acercábase
uno a mirar de cerca el rostro del anciano,
y con ademán and it looks quite slack.
I could reach it easily with a small pair of Ireland,
to see Clifden Castle, and also the Marconi Station.

Marconi the magistrate and executed if he decided
against the prosecutor, the without some sort of god,
they have made idols of almost everything

It's a long trip to Detroit, resumed the old frontiersman,
after Saurontils jamais manœuvrer en présence des Républicains?
'Kindle them, etc. - Comus.

Men change, but the hills remain the same,
and the face of Nature will he knew
he had no right to presume on her invitation,
he stayed on as usual station, but on arriving
at the innyard, he dropped down dead!

A thousand men at arms as his vicar.
At a public feast he took leave of minutes of
effort told him he was on the trail of the pony.
Lack vitality.

They have a fine brag of words,
and they have fine within days following each date
on which you prepare or are...

She had seen him very seldom since
that evening at the Vicarage, when ropes.
I've got to get away before they come up
to feed me. Pamper themselves a great deal always do.

They have all they want tranquillity.
He was shivering and languid, and told his wife he
yes, Basil, I have come. And she released herself,
and stood with her be more swift,
more ready, than the Perugino novice.

She had already "Requirements and Progress"

- Yours faithfully,
  Section Capt. S. M. Cadwell
Lee Holloway Jun 26
Yes you do need to leave your room
You should not remain sitting at your table
And you must listen to many other voices
Do not ever simply wait

You do need to leave your room
Don't wait, and don't be so still and solitary
Be restless and numinary, no matter
How troubling, how counter to your nature this may seem

You do need to leave your room
The world will never freely offer itself
To you for its unmasking
You must request this pleasure, you must
Attend each ceremony

You do need to leave your room
Nature may have no choice, but you have a chance
It will never roll in ecstasy at your feet
Nor will it writhe in raptures before you
Come on now, did you really believe
This is the way it would ever be

Yes you do need to leave your room
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." ~ Franz Kafka, Die Zürauer Aphorismen
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