https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=oktoberfest+catalonia+album&&view=detail&mid=F7EE75552C88332CC403F7EE75552C88332CC403&&FORM=VRDGARHope I heard a joke by a pastor on a show before I changed it. A pastor says If you donate 1000 to the church you get to pick the next 3 hymns. A woman donated a 1000. The pastor said Which hymns do you want? Him him & him. I worked in a Baptist church orchestra in Austin. It was a nice way to earn a few extra bucks for movies and snacks and the different kind of music was nice. They had a member who composed original work. The problem with having snacks is people would want to come by and scarf down half a bottle of Planters. I made PB &J for Eric and me before the next day rides that he liked because I loaded up the ingredients or sometimes deep dish at Conan’s or thin at Milto’s pepperoni & mushroom later switched olives and mushroom yeah! When I headed out to my exhibit guide job with the USIA in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok I learned some poems by heart so that I would be able to do more than sing the theme to Gilligan’s Island There once … Brady Bunch Here’s the story…Monkees Here we come…. I did actually sing the Gilligan’s theme once and hummed Summertime Summertime when…
I knew that Russians like to recite poetry and sing songs often with a guitar and I might have an opportunity not to be caught out if it came to me and I had to sit it out. I learned this https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
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Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll | Poetry Foundation
Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was an individual who, through his rare and diversified literary gifts and power of communication,…
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What? You define me God with these trinkets? Can my misery meal on an ordered walking of surpliced numskulls? And a fanfare of lights? Or even upon the measured pulpitings of the familiar false and true? Is this God? Where, then, is hell? Show me some bastard mushroom sprung from a pollution of blood.
It is better.
Where is God? Remember I asked my friend if God was in the garbage bin after he said God was everywhere couldn’t answer it and rejected the idea right there. Ay, workman, make me a dream, A dream for my love.
Cunningly weave sunlight, Breezes, and flowers.
Let it be of the cloth of meadows.
And — good workman — and let there be a man walking thereon. Forth went the candid man and spoke freely to the stars — Yellow light tore sight from his eyes.
“My good fool,” said a learned bystander, “Your operations are mad.
” “You are too candid,” cried the candid man, And when his stick left the head of the learned bystander It was two sticks. The 1st is the only one I remember doing.
The new movie Kill Your Darlings, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr, takes its name from an old piece of advice sometimes given to aspiring writers. You have to learn, literary hopefuls are told, to “kill your darlings.”
In other words, you have to get rid of your most precious and especially self-indulgent passages for the greater good of your literary work. In reviews of the movie, the widely repeated saying has been attributed both to Ginsberg and to William Faulkner. Who really came up with “kill your darlings”?
Not who you think. Variations on the “murder your darlings” saying, including “kill your darlings” and “kill your babies,” have been handed down in writing workshops and guides for decades, and almost every major 20th century English author has been cited at one time or another. In addition to the common attribution to Faulkner—“In writing, you must kill all your darlings”—which seems to have been popularized in guides to screenwriting in the 1990s, the advice has also been attributed to Oscar Wilde, Eudora Welty, G.K. Chesterton, “the great master Chekov,” and Stephen King, who wrote, “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
But the earliest known example of the phrase is not from any of these writers, but rather Arthur Quiller-Couch, who spread it in his widely reprinted 1913-1914 Cambridge lectures “On the Art of Writing.” In his 1914 lecture “On Style,” he said, while railing against “extraneous Ornament”:
If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
Of course, all these citations to names like Faulkner, Wilde, and Chekov may have helped the saying spread—it’s hard to imagine it spreading as quickly as attributed to the lesser-known Quiller-Couch. But whether you’re talking about killing darlings or murdering babies, it’s best to follow another rule of writing: Check your sources.
