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    • chuntzy
      Normal People

      By chuntzy · Posted

      This novel held my interest until about  two thirds of the way through when I started to get rather bored: the hometown chapters were for me more involving.  
    • lunababymoonchild
      Currently Reading

      By lunababymoonchild · Posted

      Anarcho-syndacalism, Rudolph Rocker
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      All the Old Knives

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    • David 0916
      All the Old Knives

      By David 0916 · Posted

      Any thoughts on the conclusion?  A little ambiguous to me.
    • lunababymoonchild
      Poetic Wanderings

      By lunababymoonchild · Posted

      Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star  In his steep course? So long he seems to pause  On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC,  The Arve and Arveiron at thy base  Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form!  Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,  How silently! Around thee and above  Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black,  An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it,  As with a wedge! But when I look again,  It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,  Thy habitation from eternity!  O dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee,  Till thou, still present to the bodily sense,  Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer  I worshipped the Invisible alone.    Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody,  So sweet, we know not we are listening to it,  Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my Thought,  Yea, with my Life and Life's own secret joy:  Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused,  Into the mighty vision passing—there  As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!    Awake, my soul! not only passive praise  Thou owest! not alone these swelling tears,  Mute thanks and secret ecstasy! Awake,  Voice of sweet song! Awake, my heart, awake!  Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn.    Thou first and chief, sole sovereign of the Vale!  O struggling with the darkness all the night,  And visited all night by troops of stars,  Or when they climb the sky or when they sink:  Companion of the morning-star at dawn,  Thyself Earth's rosy star, and of the dawn  Co-herald: wake, O wake, and utter praise!  Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in Earth?  Who filled thy countenance with rosy light?  Who made thee parent of perpetual streams?    And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad!  Who called you forth from night and utter death,  From dark and icy caverns called you forth,  Down those precipitous, black, jagg   Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

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