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Fri 11 Oct 2013

Life lives you

Posted by PJ under denial, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”

â€”Henry Miller, The World of Sex

Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 10 Oct 2013

Egalitarian

Posted by PJ under death, illness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.”

â€”Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, #48, September 1, 1750

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Mon 7 Oct 2013

Kick me

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stories, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”

â€”Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977

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Fri 4 Oct 2013

Book review: Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer

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This is a gorgeously written book, but also a cranking good thriller and a beautifully thought-out fantasy. Ms. Moyer has done meticulous research to bring the San Francisco of 1915 vividly to life, against the backdrop of the Panama Pacific International Exposition (World’s Fair). Her characters are fully realized, people you come to care deeply forâ€”and her villain a terrifying amalgam of shadow and sickness.

Delia Martin is haunted by a persistent ghost who wants her to do something or warn her in some way. The trouble is, Delia can’t figure out what, but she knows it’s vital that she unearth the reason or the ghost will never let her rest. Then a serial killer begins to operate in San Francisco and murder comes close to Delia and those she loves. She soon realizes there must be a connection between ghost and murderer, and it becomes even more important to discover what her shadow wants.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It satisfies on all levels, mainly because Ms. Moyer has taken such care with building this world brick by brick, skin by skin, shadow and fog.

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Fri 4 Oct 2013

Playing it safe

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the â€œdark shade of courageâ€ alone that the spell can be broken.”

â€”Dag HammarskjÃ¶ld, Servant of Peace