Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, The Chronicles of Narnia (especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), A Child's Garden of Verses, Winnie the Pooh, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Five Children and It, The Story of the Amulet, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Adventures of the Wishing Chair, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, A Book of Myths and Monsters, A Book of Witches and Warlocks, The Children's Illustrated Bible, The 1001 Arabian Nights, Boy's Own Stories, Arkady Leokum's Tell Me Why Books, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries, Dr. Who, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The Lord of the Rings, The Lotus Caves, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Silver Sword, Last of the Mohicans, The Oregon Trail, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Moby Dick, All of Agatha Christie, Rex Stout - The Nero Wolfe Mysteries, Alistair Maclean - The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Phèdre, Romeo and Juliet, Dr. Faustus, Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, Chekhov - The Three Sisters, The Tempest, The Wasp Factory, American Psycho, Roland Barthes - Mythologies, The Book of Job, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Salman Rushdie - Shame, The Dhammapada, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Oresteia, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, The Bacchae, Tao Te Ching, Han Shan, Ryokan - One Robe, One Bowl, The Bodhicaryavatara, Persuasion, Walden, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, All of Yeats, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Complete Poems of Keats, Elizabeth Bishop - Complete Poems, All of Ted Hughes's Poetry (especially Crow, Tales from Ovid, and his versions of The Oresteia, Seneca's Oedipus and Lorca's Blood Wedding) Ted Hughes - Winter Pollen, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, Seamus Heaney - Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, The Government of the Tongue, The Redress of Poetry, Louise Gluck - The Wild Iris, Vita Nova, Meadowlands, The Seven Ages, Robert Graves - The White Goddess, The Story of O, Edgar Wind - Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, Art and Anarchy, Janet Gyatso - Apparitions of the Self, Jigme Lingpa - Secret Autobiographies, Marina Warner - Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Collected Poems of Rumi, Collected Poems of Hafiz, The Mabinogion, James Hillman - Suicide and the Soul, Healing Fiction, The Dream and the Underworld, Ronald Hutton - The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, Robert Bly - Iron John, Alicia Ostriker - For the Love of God: the Bible as an Open Book, Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Heroes
Blake, Yeats, Ted Hughes, Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Keats, Coleridge, Pound, the Buddha, Thomas More, Morrissey/Marr, Johnny Rotten, Turner, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Miyazaki, Araki, Kenny Dalglish, Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin, Bob Bura & John Hardwick, Gordon Murray, E.H. Shephard, Derek Jarman, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Edgar Wind, Jigme Lingpa, Drukpa Kunley, Bob Dylan, John Peel, Tony Benn, Monty Python, Ronnie Barker, Eric Morecambe, Jon Stewart, James Hillman, Dr. Who...
2 profiles, everyone is doing it. Thanks for the Brunch invite, I heard it was awesome, looking forward to making/recording some music . We should talk soon, maybe this weekend. In fact I am playing at a barn party...wait Isis just told me you can't go, anyway maybe we can chat soon! Peace... Seth
Thanks for the tour of your flat, with all of it's peep holes. we're hoping for bbq and bocce on friday evening. we'll keep you posted. have a super day!
sorry i didn't make it to stockpot this evening... a long and tiring day, and more work waiting for me at home. so long summer!! :( i'll have some time on friday for a meet-up-catch-up.
Would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
A weariness comes from those dreamers, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you!
I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more; Soon far from the rose and the lily, and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is now celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom. The modern holiday of Halloween has its origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain (pronounced /,,sˠaunʲ/ from the Old Irish samain). The Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is regarded as 'The Celtic New Year'. On Halloween night in present-day, adults and children dress up as creatures from the underworld (e.g., ghosts, ghouls, zombies, witches and goblins). Halloween was perceived as the night during which the division between the world of the living and the otherworld was blurred so spirits of the dead and inhabitants from the underworld were able to walk free on the earth. It was believed necessary to dress as a spirit or otherworldly creature when venturing outdoors to blend in, and this is where dressing in such a manner for Halloween comes from. The houses are frequently adorned with pumpkins or turnips carved into scary faces; lights or candles are placed inside the carvings to provide an eerie effect. Happy Halloween my Friend!
AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow. Thank you for your friendship, I hope you are enjoying the Fall Yeats
