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^Where The Sidewalk Ends?

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Nah, Panic, it's like pretty new age, he talks about resonance a lot.. For some reason I wanna say that you recommended it before lol. But I may be wrong haha. I guess my first description was more than a bit lacking lol.
 
well, Where The Sidewalk Ends is pretty durn good.

Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

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Oh god, I love that poem.

"And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind."


Amazing.
 
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powerful stuff, i read that particular line a few times too. he certainly is one of the greatest american artists...

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"for we have some flax-golden tales to spin"

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Dude stop tapping into my subconscious hehe =)

I agree, he's amazing =)
 
Some new release recommendations:

Stonemouth - Iain Banks
Capital - John Lanchester
The Man From Primrose Lane - James Renner
Map of Time - Felix J. Palma
Prague Cemetary - Umberto Eco

Thoroughly enjoyed all of them.
 
i finished Red Dog, Red Dog yesterday. a novel by someone named patrick lane.

my mom's description of it does a good job, "the rural version of Last Exit to Brooklyn." it's certainly not the book that Last Exit to Brooklyn is, but it's trying. you can feel it trying. first half much better than the second. hopefully it is an early work by patrick and he will refine. because i like it. has a character i was crushing on, though the book gets sappy with her at times.
 
John Updike - Collected Poems.

Surprisingly good.

...

Perfection Wasted

And another regrettable thing about death
is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,
which took a whole life to develop and market —
the quips, the witticisms, the slant
adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest
the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched
in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears,
their tears confused with their diamond earrings,
their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat,
their response and your performance twinned.
The jokes over the phone. The memories packed
in the rapid-access file. The whole act.
Who will do it again? That's it: no one;
imitators and descendants aren't the same.
 
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currently re-reading hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - douglas adams.

its been years since ive ventured there and its refreshing to read from a more mature viewpoint.

i forgot how wonderful and consuming this text is.

...kytnism...:|
 
I just had a lovely friend purchase for me as a gift, the first four A Song of Ice and Fire novels. I can't wait to have them actually in my hand. I hate trying to read the series on my computer, and I'm going on a cruise next month, so I really want to have them in book form. I don't want to lug my computer around the ship trying to read a thousand page book.

Also reading, Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley. I love Aldous Huxley. One of my favorite writers of all time.
 
foucault - madness and civilization. so i can appear intelligent and educated. well, actually it's incredibly interesting, but by god does it require a lot of concentration. it might just be the german translation, but i haven't read anything this difficult in a while.
mike carey - thicker than water. for pure entertainment.
 
I'm reading Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury right now. I was glad to finish the first section, so damn confusing.
 
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That's on my to-do list. I love Faulkner, but he can be a bear to read. It took me a long time to get through The Town (the latest one I read), and that is not a thick book.

Currently, I'm reading Edmund Morris's Theodore Rex, about the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. I'm not that far into it, but what I've read so far is excellent.
 
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