Tag: dailyprompt

A very long life? ‘Tis ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East’

December 30, 2023

Okay, said young Tithonus, to the goddess of the Dawn, as she senses that this boy has prominent qualities that make him worth the effort of capture – ‘but as long as I can live forever’ he says. At which the Goddess possibly smiled. Humans never work their wishes through do they? Tennyson says it … More A very long life? ‘Tis ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East’

A bibliophile talks to himself almost all the time! Even when shopping šŸ›ļø

December 29, 2023

List your top 5 grocery store items. Go to town today and buy a good book But whilst you are there, why not take a look At the market, you could draw up a list Of groceries needed, items you missed When last you dashed round Aldi, at least five Come to my mind straight … More A bibliophile talks to himself almost all the time! Even when shopping šŸ›ļø

How have your political views changed over time? This question demands a story or two in answer?Forever RED in the UK or Just Nostalgic for a RED past?

December 26, 2023

I recently  blogged on the work of the brilliant Matt Colquhoun as it touches upon and works with the thought of his no less brilliant deceased mentor, Mark Fisher (see it as this link). I summarised the view they both promote and which Matt is consciously developing apace now, that the left of UK politics: … More How have your political views changed over time? This question demands a story or two in answer?Forever RED in the UK or Just Nostalgic for a RED past?

The skills and lessons that assist us are usually old ones we later ‘learn’ to disregard or fail to respect: recently, via a blog I am preparing about the artistry of Maurice Sendak, I have begun to relearn the value of reading looks using, let’s call it, ‘primal vision’.

December 23, 2023

What skills or lessons have you learned recently? When I taught literature at the Roehampton Institute, I once composed a lecture on Jane Austen’s Persuasion, my favourite of her novels, about the agency of ‘looks’ in that story. It matters because it is a novel of total concern with both how you look (the vanity … More The skills and lessons that assist us are usually old ones we later ‘learn’ to disregard or fail to respect: recently, via a blog I am preparing about the artistry of Maurice Sendak, I have begun to relearn the value of reading looks using, let’s call it, ‘primal vision’.

Wake me up when it’s yesterday. Nostalgia revisited because tomorrow should not WAIT.

December 22, 2023

Below is a starter on our nostalgia trip. This is a brilliant photo-collage showing triggers to possible nostalgia and I suppose it is things like these pictures or the objects in them that this question looks for us to name – and what is amazing is that they all, as photographs at least, sort of … More Wake me up when it’s yesterday. Nostalgia revisited because tomorrow should not WAIT.

If the city that promised you love has closed its gates on you, is there any other city to which you can go: My heart in longing for some Jerusalem the Golden.

December 18, 2023

What cities do you want to visit? Jerusalem the Golden by Avram Graicer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36291082 An earlier prompt question and my response helps me to situate myself in relation to this question. The old question was: ‘Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?’ I wrote … More If the city that promised you love has closed its gates on you, is there any other city to which you can go: My heart in longing for some Jerusalem the Golden.

“NothingĀ willĀ comeĀ ofĀ nothing.Ā SpeakĀ again”. (‘King Lear’ Act 1, Scene 1, line 99).

December 17, 2023

What we create from all creation comes, No something from some nothing comes at all And brightest lights still travelling from suns Long after their death, engendered fall. Though we do not see that act of making It depends upon those many at work To make it; source material faking Its absence and worker’s struggle … More “NothingĀ willĀ comeĀ ofĀ nothing.Ā SpeakĀ again”. (‘King Lear’ Act 1, Scene 1, line 99).

I hope people say he had a fascination of what’s difficult’.

December 14, 2023

Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. Jack B. Yeats (the poetā€™s brother) Man in a Room Thinking 1947 The immediate temptation with a question like this is to imagine what people gathered around your grave at your funeral would say. I hope that they might say ‘he had a fascination of … More I hope people say he had a fascination of what’s difficult’.