Tag: arts
group name: triplenameclub
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August 29, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
I've only read one doctoral dissertation in my life, Henry A Kissinger's "A World Restored" and it was certainly nothing like this one:
It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
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May 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport is a cheerless backwater, especially at four in the morning, after enduring a 10-hour flight to Amsterdam, a nine-hour delay, followed by the six-hour flight to Tehran. . . . more
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May 31, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
Some people have junk drawers. I have a junk room. In fact, somewhere in the midst of my junk room is my office. Yes, I work amidst stacks of stuff....some of it will be sold on eBay, some of it will . . . more
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September 17, 2006 09:56 PM EDT --
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaissance in . . . more
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November 06, 2006 03:44 PM EST --
Dear reader, ask yourself when is the last time you bought a book of poems? It has even been a long time since I have purchased a book of poems. I think it is safe to say that poetry died somewhere in . . . more
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July 20, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
I.
The ever elusive L, bright eyes with hooks
to pull me into the sea.
You and I no longer share a garden.
Our season of blossoms and bruises
has shifted to a season of
sunset . . . more
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August 14, 2007 08:24 PM EDT --
I.
I need you like the morning gloom of June.
Cleanse me with the smoke of your pipes
and the sweat of a million faces.
I want to move at the speed of stand still.
You are . . . more
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . . more
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . . more
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November 11, 2006 11:20 AM EST --
We passed through the Qeysarieh gate (see previous post for location), a pair of Parthian horsemen turning backwards, bows drawn, ready for a final shot, stand at opposite ends of the tympanum. Was the . . . more
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March 18, 2007 01:13 AM EDT --
Today, teen Fashionista (wants a haute couture wardrobe) and mom Fashionista (on a tight budget) drove in Boston slush to the Boston MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) Haute Couture exhibit, which closes . . . more
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December 04, 2006 07:09 PM EST --
Could you bruise me with better words than I?
How many fruits have you stolen?
I could taste sweeter than your sins.
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You searched for me at midnight
and vexed me with . . . more
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February 05, 2007 03:17 AM EST --
A little (more or less) fiction, a little nonfiction... How about a little poetry; something I wrote over ten years ago:
Jasmine
I put my fingers to my nose & smell
the sweet scent of jasmine. . . . more
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September 26, 2006 07:39 PM EDT --
Dear reader, have you ever been reading a book where you were so involved in it that when it came close to the end, you felt sad because you knew it was ending. Probably not, but I have. Whenever I'm . . . more
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November 15, 2006 02:56 PM EST --
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May 28, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
I love this little book and I’m not a knitter. I knit but how can someone who's spent more than two years trying to knit one hat -- call themselves a knitter? I do love knitters and knitted things. . . . more
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May 02, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
Welcome to Gather Essentials: Writing for Friday, May 2nd
Today I present poet Gary Snyder , who has just won a hundred thousand dollars in the . . . more
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November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . . more
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . . more
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