Biblioteca Arcana

BIBLIOTECA ARCANA


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Locales by Jeff Harrison

Here a hart never a fawn will fall under dogs never whelps. Where Hyantian Autonoe fed her fawn is where Ephesian Artemis, that asp at the breast of the fount, feeds Her whelps.

(c) Jeff Harrison

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Inadvertence by Jeff Harrison

Settling into the hart my deathbed, inadvertence, I suggest. Mournful, with, oh, one glimpse more of Actaeon, by the fay brought low, my curs the greenwood go.

(c) Jeff Harrison

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Charles S. Peirce

"Upon this first, and in one sense, the only rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy:   Do not block the way of inquiry."

--C. S. Peirce to the Harvard philosophers, 1898  

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The Monuments Men

Thanks to Sarah Rae, I reached The Monuments Men site, honoring her father, and mine.

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Monsanto

Monsanto, remember.

Been fighting my own projections

Been fighting my own projections

A jungle of absorbed conformed notions

Unreachable dreams of a suffering social structure

When in my 20s: a job a boyfriend my studies

When in my 30s: a better job a better boyfriend/family my studies

When in my 40s: a better job a better boyfriend_where’s the family? My studies

When in my 50s: my family died_

Projections dissolved

I live with and in the memory of my father

My ailing surroundings won’t project 

Sheltered by loss time has stopped

At the frozen granite tomb

Of the one who has given me life

(c) Anny 

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Jon Awbrey

forwarded the following:

Notes

1. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh1200.htm
2. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0016,001:1:207&lang=original
3. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpa%2Fqhma
4. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29xa%2Fritos
5. http://bible.cc/hebrews/5-8.htm


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Gilbert Highet

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but 'minds' alive on the shelves," Highet wrote. He believed that "The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."

[...]

 "The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts." 

from Wikipedia

Thanks to Bill Morgan for having provided the link.

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Ronald Johnson

Thanks to Poetry Foundation
More pictures by other poets.

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Actaeon still by Jeff Harrison

Take my hand; I perish, maniac. Than a hart's stems I am more frail by far; my spirit will fail before I leave your fountain's side. Actaeon still, I cannot face another supernal, and several, and these supernals hounds.

(c) Jeff Harrison

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135th Infantry Division

Forwarded by Roberta Russo, with my warm acknowledgment:

35th Infantry Division (G-2) and 134th Infantry Regiment (S-2) Periodic Intelligence reports have been posted on the 134th Infantry Regiment Website. These are daily summary reports that contain information about enemy troop and artillery locations, defensive positions, identities of enemy units encountered, enemy operations during the period, etc.

Here are the links

35th Infantry Division Periodic Reports for December 1944 and January 1945:

http://www.coulthart.com/134/g2-35-periodic-report-index.htm

134th Infantry Regiment Periodic Reports for December 1944

http://www.coulthart.com/134/s2-134-periodic-report-index.htm

I will post more of these reports as they become available. Please let me know if you find any broken links or if you have trouble accessing any of the reports.

Regards,
Roberta Russo, webmaster
134th Infantry Regiment Website
http://www.coulthart.com/134/index.htm

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The 137th Infantry Regiment

Roberta Russo forwarded the following: 

Mr. Rick Callendar compiled a database of 137th Infantry Regiment soldiers based on the book "35th Infantry Division Roster POE to POE". It contains Name (Last, First, Middle Initial); City and State entered service; rank; and when known the Army Serial Number and any awards or medals earned. This database has been posted on the 134th Infantry Regiment Website. Here is the link:

http://www.coulthart.com/134/137_personnel_roster_index.htm

If you find any broken links or have problems accessing the data, please let me know.

Rick Callendar is the nephew of Pfc. Joseph T. Ryan who served in Company L of the 137th Infantry Regiment. He began compiling this database about 12 years ago and continues to add new information as it becomes available. Thanks to Rick for making this information available.

Regards,
Roberta Russo, webmaster
134th Infantry Regiment Website
http://www.coulthart.com/134/

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The Patton Papers

I acknowledge Kelly & Louise Moore for having forwarded the following: 

I found out a bit more about the Patton quote at a press conference on January 1, 1945 from "The Patton Papers, 1940-1945" by Martin Blumenson, 1974.  I found part of the book online, and it is available on Amazon.  It is very long and has high reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0306807173

"Now that sounds like what a great man George Patton is, but I did not have anything to do with it.  I told General Gay and the staff, and they got the movement orders out.  The people who actually did it were the younger officers and soldiers.  When you think of those men marching all night in the cold, over roads they had never seen, and nobody getting lost, and everybody getting to the place in time, it is a marvelous feat; I know of no equal to it in military history...I take off my hat to them.  The 35th Division did a marvelous thing."

P.S.  General Gay was the Chief of Staff for the 3rd Army.

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The hart, astounded by Jeff Harrison

Upon the pack flies the hart, astounded; he hears still the fount, the boughs, the boscage all: I, too, was once Actaeon.

(c) Jeff Harrison

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Gertie

Gertie's blog for sewing and so many other nice things.

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The Next Big Thing: A Meme about New Books

What is the working title of the book?

My Father, although titles are chosen when the work is complete.
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Where did the idea come from for the book?

From my experience.

What genre does your book fall under?

Poetry, Prose Poetry, Prose.

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

Jesus (7/2BC-30/36AD), St. Augustine (354-430), Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), St. Francis (1181-1226), Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Buster Keaton (1895-1966), Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), Marlon Brando (1924-2004), Jeanne Moreau (1928---), Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), Brigitte Anne Marie Bardot (1934---), Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (1938-1993), Jim Morrison (1943-1971), Mick Jagger (1943---), The Talking Heads. 

I want them all alive in my movie.

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

From the hardness of rock, randomly sprayed by snow detaching sky from earth, or fading earth into sky, an untiring reading looking for breaches in the thickly detaching wall.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

Still writing. Since ever. Effectively since 2007.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

A man, his life, his fears, his ambitions, his death, through the investigative / investigating eyes of his daughter. The notion of thriller disappears when reality enters to transform thought, geniality, life into death, loss, murder. As Van Gogh was “suicided by society” (Antonin Artaud), my father was “stroked’ by his people and one of their in-laws (a doctor), and by the Western world economic crisis.

What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?

My book will speak for many, many years to come.

 
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

It will find its own Editor.

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My Thank You to Henry Gould at HG POETICS for tagging me in this game.  I am turning the game over to James Finnegan at ursprache, West Hartford Poet Laureate, and Manager of the NewPoetry.list. Thus receiving from a friend and handing over to a friend. 

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4 harts by Jeff Harrison

A hind his dam, this hart, as this, and this. An undine his dam, this hart, once hunter, till this.

(c) Jeff Harrison

 

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Fruits

for the summer, good drinks


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For my Father

GENIUSES IN THE FRINGES

There is a black and white picture

I set on the shelf of the library

It looks at me when I look for him

Although it is the same picture

I have on my left in color

This one shows 'my father'

The round open right eye

Shocked by the world, by history

By people, by the events

Lost by his own people

When he lost them

His left eye smiling

With his loving being he has done

All he could to smooth down

Soften – the vivisecting

Crevices that separate hope

From reality. 

(c) Anny Ballardini


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Roberta Russo

Roberta Russo forwarded the following. With my sincere acknowledgment:

320th Infantry Regiment After Action Reports for July 1944 through June 1945 have been posted on the 134th Infantry Regiment Website.

Here is the link where you can access After Action Reports for the 35th Division, 134th, 137th, and 320th Infantry Regiments:

http://www.coulthart.com/134/aa-report-index.htm

If you have problems with any of these reports, please let me know.

Roberta Russo, webmaster
134th Infantry Regiment Website
http://www.coulthart.com/134/

http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/

Federal Advisory Committee Draft Climate Assessment Report Released for Public Review

 

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