![]() ![]() The earliest known evidence for a version of this saying appeared in a book titled “I Ain’t Much Baby-But I’m All I’ve Got” by Jess Lair that was privately published in 1969. Quote Investigator: QI has found no substantiation that Richard Bach created or used the phrases above. Could you tell me where this expression came from? But I cannot find this saying in his novels. ![]() The statement immediately above was attributed to Richard Bach who wrote the enormously popular inspirationally work “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” in the 1970s. If they come back they’re yours if they don’t they never were. If it returns, it’s yours if it doesn’t, it wasn’t. Recently, I heard more elaborate quotations that included the above statement: Richard Bach? Jess Lair? Anonymous student? Sting? Peter Max? Chantal Sicile?ĭear Quote Investigator: On his first solo album in 1985 the musician Sting released a song called: ![]()
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![]() Robert Spiller, author of The Bonnie Pinkwater Mysteries ![]() What more can you ask from a book? I can't wait for my next visit to the Back Wing. The mystery intrigued me, and the characters entertained. ![]() Harold and his geriatric witch girlfriend Bella rock. Cricket McRae, author of the Home Crafting Mystery Series Where else could one enjoy the image of being gummed on the neck by a toothless vampire with dementia? It's a funread!Ī clever mystery plot, a wacky cast of aging shape shifters, vampires, witches and more, along with a budding romance for widower Harold McCaffrey, provide loads of humor and intrigue in Befeler's new paranormal twist on his trademark geezer-lit mysteries. The Front Wing houses so-called normal geriatrics, and the Back Wing is home to aging witches, werewolves, and shape-shifters. Mike Befeler has crafted a witty and fast-moving paranormal puzzle set in a retirement home that serves a dual population. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he and Autumn first grudgingly, and then not so grudgingly, open up to each other, Autumn is struck by their surprising connection. ![]() Except there is more to Dax than meets the eye. ![]() Instead it becomes clear that Autumn is going to have to spend the next couple of days living off vending-machine food and making conversation with a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Still, she just keeps reminding herself that it is only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost-boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her. Between the rumors about the fight he was in (and that brief stint in juvie that followed it) and his reputation as a loner, he’s not exactly the ideal person to be stuck with. Autumn doesn’t know much about Dax except that he’s trouble. But that’s before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her. I flew through this book and although its not my favorite Kasie West. When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn’t think things could get any worse. Places Weve Never Been was so easy to read and our two main protagonists were so. Witty and romantic, this paperback original from a fan favorite is perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins and Morgan Matson. In this irresistible story, Kasie West explores the timeless question of what to do when you fall for the person you least expect. ![]() ![]() "Another says that Ellison worries about it being dated, a third man says he has heard that Ellison cannot finish it." "One man has heard that he has pulled it back from his publisher again for more revisions," wrote James McPherson in a profile of Ellison in 1969. Four years later, he said a fire at his summer home in Plainfield, Massachusetts, had destroyed most of it and that he did not have copies. In 1963, he told the Guardian that he would probably publish it the following year. ![]() But an oeuvre of the scope and stature of his first work eluded him.Īnd so for 40 years he laboured, teasing critics with sample chapters in literary reviews, referring to a major work occasionally in essays and generally fuelling rumours that its appearance was imminent. ![]() He produced several essays and a few short stories which established him as a powerful intellectual force. The literary world waited impatiently for a second novel Ellison was desperate to oblige. ![]() Invisible Man, an allegory about the black condition in America, illustrated how American "Negroes" - as Ellison always referred to African-Americans - remained not only unseen, but "invisible" to most white Americans. ![]() ![]() Zev knows that, once he will bond with Jonah, they will not be able to stay apart, and so Zev self-inflicts a torture, denying the need to have sex with Jonah until the time Jonah will be back from college… unfortunately Jonah decides to become a doctor and between college and residency, the target age is more around thirty than twenty.Īs I said, this is a paranormal romance, but really, it’s pretty much a best friends/forever boyfriends story not Zev or Jonah have any doubts each other is their soul mate, Jonah may question why Zev doesn’t want to have sex, and maybe he falters a little in his good proposal to stay faithful to his boyfriend even when living far apart, but it’s nothing major, nothing tragic or irreparable. ![]() In a way or the other, he first manages to become friend with the other kid as a wolf puppy, and then, at 7 years old, as schoolmate, and later as boyfriend. In this case Zev is a shapeshifter, living in a community just outside a small town and he recognize his mate, Jonah, a same age kid, when he is only 1 years old. ![]() likes a lot the concept of together-forever, and often the characters are childhood friends who experiment together for the first time, from love to sex and everything else in between. Elisa_rolle This is the first paranormal romance I read by this author, but it’s really not so different from the contemporary romance I was used to Cardeno C. ![]() ![]() ![]() All attempts to classify the many kinds of literary dreams or visions seem unsuccessful those that are religious and those that are profane, those occurring in sleep and those in waking hours, those that are clearly didactic, and those that are playfully fanciful are all known as dreams, visions, or dream visions. The term vision or dream literature is applied generally to narrations that use dreams or visions as an artistic device. Fascinated by the phenomenon, man has speculated about the nature of dreams, their cause, classification, and meaning (see dream visions.) Many writings of the ancients, the Bible, and early and late Christian and pagan records contain dreams and visions that purport to be revelations from the divinity: warnings, omens, instructions, prophecies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julie Paschkis and I tell their stories, combining sixteen variants-from Ethiopia to Indonesia to the United States-into one tale. Despite being scorned for being the youngest and smallest, they're always well-armed with cleverness and courage. And what figure faces steeper odds than a child confronting a man-eating giant?įrom Jack to Little Thumb to Molly Whuppie, these valiant youngsters are known worldwide. Tales of unafraid underdogs give us heart. With hearty humor and dazzling art, this sideshow-in-a-book will not only entertain but inspire readers to embrace challenge, curiosity, and play. Consider his friend Georges Perec, who set himself the task of writing a novel without the letter e.Īlphamaniacs is a gift to word-lovers of all ages. Regard Raymond Queneau, whose mix-and-match sonnets would take a million centuries to recite. ![]() ![]() Marvel at erasure artists like Janet Holmes, who removed words from Emily Dickinson's verses to reveal a wholly different group of poems. Language for them is something to be hacked, played with, and explored, inspiring jaw-dropping quests and arduous treks to its most distant shores.īehold Daniel Nussbaum, who retold the classics using only vanity license plates. ![]() They see numbers in letters and art supplies in dictionaries. They're mesmerized by words' shapes and sounds. Not so the wild-eyed figures profiled here! Most of us see words as good only for exchanging information. ![]() ![]() Instead of focusing on her years in the civil rights movement, Moody chose to start at the beginning-when she was four years old, the child of poor sharecroppers working for a white farmer. Moody, intimately involved in the civil rights movement in the first half of 1960s, created an unforgettable image of the inequities and violence that characterized southern society. This startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American captured the attention of Americans around the country, from all social classes and all backgrounds. Into this confusion, in 1968, Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. ![]() ![]() The civil rights movement itself was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance epitomized by Malcolm X. ![]() Significant anti-discrimination legislation had been passed, but in the view of many civil rights activists, society had not changed enough. By the late 1960s, the civil rights movement had seen enormous successes along with tragic losses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum) The state acquired the address in March 1944. Over six months, they donated about $50,000, and Chicago businessman Marshall Field III contributed the rest of the $60,000 price. ![]() The state’s children helped raise the money. Then in 1943, the owners offered to sell the copy to the state of Illinois for $60,000 (about $950,000 in 2021 dollars) so that it could be made accessible to the public for generations to come. The Everett Copy passed through the hands of several private owners over the next 80 years. These are the page numbers from when the speech was part of the book.) (If you look carefully at the Everett Copy, you can see “57” at the top of one page and “58” at the top of the other. When Everett received the copy of the speech, he bound it in a book along with a copy of his own address to be sold at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair in New York City. Everett later wrote Lincoln that, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”Įverett asked the president for a handwritten copy of his address so that it could be sold to raise money to care for sick and wounded soldiers. " The main speaker was Edward Everett, one the nation’s best orators. He was simply asked to deliver " a few appropriate remarks. Abraham Lincoln was not the primary speaker at the November 19, 1863, dedication of a national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, yoga is largely misunderstood to be and is practiced primarily as asana, or physical posture. It is with this very basic understanding in mind that yoga should be examined. No one person is born saved or condemned, but rather earns the fruit of their actions, words, and thoughts, or karma, and advances spiritually by acting in accordance with dharma, or righteousness. And any one, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or gender, has the ability to achieve moksha. In Hindu thought, the Supreme Being or the Divine is inherent in all that exists. ![]() Hindus commonly refer to Hinduism as Sanatana Dharma, or the Eternal Truth.Īlso uniting the darshanas is the concept of pluralism, the belief that multiple paths exist to attain moksha (enlightenment or liberation) or unity with God and be released from the cycle of birth and death. Thus, Hindu philosophy is often described as Vedic or the Vedic tradition. The underlying thread between these six darshanas is that they are inspired by the Vedas and other Hindu concepts. Hinduism contains within it six major schools of thought, or darshana: Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa, and Vedanta. ![]() |