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"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
- E. M. Forster
The European larch is native to the mountains of Central Europe and was introduced into the UK in the early 17th century for timber plantations. Today, this wood is mainly used for fencing, gates and garden furniture, apparently.
I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. - John Burroughs
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. - E. M. Forster
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein
It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. -
Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
- E. M. Forster
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4
HO HEY – THE LUMINEERS
Have you ever seen a seagull smile
or an alligator who thinks he is a crocodile
heard a starling sing
seen a swordfish duel
felt a jellyfish sting
or seen a horse crossed with a mule
seen a zebra crossing
or a chicken cross the road
seen a laughing hyena flossing
or a leap frog over toad
have you seen a llama
drunk on elderberry wine
or seen an angry farmer
chasing mice trip over twine
he landed in the pig trough
his trousers made the bull see red
so he charged and caught him fair and square
and the pigs were overfed
have you ever heard a nightingale sing
somewhere other than Berkeley Square
or ever answered the doorbell ring
to be greeted by a neighbouring mare
have you ever seen a zebra fly
well there's one here in my stream
or a Spongebob balloon just drifting by
well, I have and I swear it was not a dream
I ran outside in my fluffy slippers
and grabbed it while I could
took it home where he deflated
until he was as flat as balsa wood
he's still there now, if I can remember which drawer
just to think of him makes me smile
and just when I think I could wish for no more
an almighty noise makes me jump a mile
It's an elephant trumpeting for all he's worth
a circus parade marches through the town
all the children's faces are filled with mirth
as a unicycle wobbles by with a scary clown
am I the only one who always thinks of IT
no I don't mean Information Technology
I mean the scary movie clown from Stephen King's book
where he sharpens all our phobias with photiosity
the tigers wear their stripes
like sergeants on parade
the lions sport Elizabethan pleated ruffs
beneath parasols in the shade
the leopards change their spots
to look like multi-coloured polka dots
while the ring master takes a solemn bow
doffs his top hat to the cheering crowd
and fliers are handed out to the few who boldly dare
to take them from the ten foot tall upright and grizzly bear
what does all this nonsense
have to do with smiling seabirds
well nothing really that I can think of
except I love to write you all these words.
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In 1916 the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to Sussex with their unconventional household when Grant, under the terms of his exemption from military service, was employed at a nearby farm together with David Garnett.Over the following half-century Charleston became the country meeting place for the group of artists, writers and intellectuals known as Bloomsbury. Garnett, Clive Bell and Maynard Keynes lived at Charleston for considerable periods; Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry were frequent visitors. Inspired by Italian fresco painting and the Post-Impressionists, the artists decorated the walls, doors and furniture at Charleston. The walled garden was redesigned in a style reminiscent of southern Europe, with mosaics, box hedges, gravel pathways and ponds, but with a touch of Bloomsbury humour in the placing of the statuary.
"It's most lovely, very solid and simple, with ... perfectly flat windows and wonderful tiled roofs. The pond is most beautiful, with a willow at one side and a stone or flint wall edging it all round the garden part, and a little lawn sloping down to it, with formal bushes on it." — Vanessa Bell
The rooms on show form a complete example of the decorative art of the Bloomsbury artists: murals, painted furniture, ceramics, objects from the Omega Workshops, paintings and textiles. The collection includes work by Auguste Renoir, Picasso, Derain, Matthew Smith, Sickert, Stephen Tomlin (1901–1937) and Eugène Delacroix.
As you know, I like to look closely at the weedy perimeters of proper places... so I'm grateful to not so particular lawnsmen! In the wonderful Taman Burung, the Bird Park, of Kuala Lumpur there are little spots of weediness which delight me.
Here's a Creeping Foxglove, Asystasia gangetica. Lurking just under one of its cream-colored petals is a Nymph of Bush Katydid, one of the Scudderia. 'Scudderia' stands for a famous American entomologist and expert on these creatures, Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837-1911). The name was first used by the Swedish entomologist Carl Stål (1833-1878).
'Scudder' is quite apt for your Lurker in another way. The name reminds of E.M. Forster's gamekeeper, Alec Scudder, in Maurice, who in the estate's park grounds spied on and was in turn spied upon by the protagonist of that novel.
The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment.
Howards End -E.M.Forster
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A front view of Downing College, Cambridge, showcasing its elegant Georgian façade. Founded in 1800 and designed by William Wilkins in the Neoclassical style, the college combines symmetry and grandeur with the calm of its tree-lined approach. Downing has nurtured notable alumni including novelist E. M. Forster, poet Philip Larkin, actor Thandiwe Newton, and comedian John Cleese, whose early work with the Cambridge Footlights began here. The scene captures t
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Spending the last bits of the evening doing one of my favorite things -- reading.
An old favorite standby:
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Today was sort of crazy. I didn't actually get out of my bed until almost noon (the kids are on vacay with their dad until next Monday! wee!) and then hit the ground running:
-lunch with my mom
-my mom and I then moved all of the furniture in main living areas into the ktichen
-followed by teamwork to steam clean the carpets
-tried to think of ways to get out of finishing steam cleaning the carpets
-finished them anyway
-grabbed a quick dinner at Sonic (cherry limeade!!! YUM!!!)
-crashed on the couch at my mom's house to watch a movie
-back home at 10:30 with realization that I have yet to take a selfie today
-think maybe I'll just SKIP IT (***gasp!!!***) and then lay down on the bed to read
-get distracted from reading while thinking about self-portrait guilt
-set up and take picture, edit, and here I am with the posting
-gonna post this and run, back to my bed to read some more of my book
If you are so inclined and would like to join me, you can plop down next to me with your own book. Make sure you bring a box of cookies, though..... ;)
How wonderful to enjoy this view from our hotel room in Florence. The magnificent Santa Maria Novella church. One of the most important Gothic churches in Tuscany.
It is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church, begun originally in 1276.
Title in reference to a favourite novel - 'A Room with a View' (1908) by English writer E. M. Forster. The novel is set in Italy and England.
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Drinking Earl Grey tea on a very grey morning in December, reading the first pages of Howards End by E.M. Forster.
I needed a break from digital photography, so I'm posting some film shots I took last year shortly before Easter. I'm so excited that spring has finally arrived!
“What is the good of stars and trees, sunrise and the wind,
if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
~ E. M. Forster ~
We are home but already missing paradise.
Was hard to select a first post from our amazing vacation in Maine,
but thought a sunrise might be a good place to begin . . .
especially since I've gotten so few of them in my life!
I didn't become an early morning person,
but did find it difficult not to get up with the glorious sunrises!
Thanks to the anonymous stranger who placed himself at the perfect spot for my shots!
The entire week was full of such serendipity.
le campagne sopra settignano (firenze)
- flickr meeting gruppo deanna 18/10/2008
it.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKvm7EAZHM
E l'acqua si riempie di schiuma il cielo di fumi
la chimica lebbra distrugge la vita nei fiumi
uccelli che volano a stento malati di morte
il freddo interesse alla vita ha sbarrato le porte
un'isola intera ha trovato nel mare una tomba
il falso progresso ha voluto provare una bomba
poi pioggia che toglie la sete alla terra che è vita
invece le porta la morte perché è radioattiva
Eppure il vento soffia ancora
spruzza l'acqua alle navi sulla prora
e sussurra canzoni tra le foglie
bacia i fiori li bacia e non li coglie
Un giorno il denaro ha scoperto la guerra mondiale
ha dato il suo putrido segno all'istinto bestiale
ha ucciso, bruciato, distrutto in un triste rosario
e tutta la terra si è avvolta di un nero sudario
e presto la chiave nascosta di nuovi segreti
così copriranno di fango persino i pianeti
vorranno inquinare le stelle la guerra tra i soli
i crimini contro la vita li chiamano errori
Eppure il vento soffia ancora
spruzza l'acqua alle navi sulla prora
e sussurra canzoni tra le foglie
bacia i fiori li bacia e non li coglie
eppure sfiora le campagne
accarezza sui fianchi le montagne
e scompiglia le donne fra i capelli
corre a gara in volo con gli uccelli
Eppure il vento soffia ancora!!!
some books and magazines on my radar. I'm studying both Claire Keegan and Bernard MacLaverty as part of an Irish Literature course. I'm really enjoying the Claire Fuller novel, and I'm looking forward to the Ishiguro despite the fact the last of his I began, The Unconsoled, I had to abandon. History Revealed is a fun way to consume history and Apollo is an art magazine that I'm trying out. Oh and E.M. Forster - I don't think I've read any of his work but obviously seen the film adaptions by Merchant Ivory
“At night,
when the curtains are drawn
and the fire flickers,
my books attain a collective dignity.”
~ E. M. Forster ~
Again, I apologize for posting and retiring.
I've been sewing non-stop with only a few breaks to unwind at my computer,
just long enough to say hi to everyone.
Promise to catch up in a few days.
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I spent a large portion of this month (almost 3 weeks) reading E.M. Forsters "Howards End". Like with "A Room with a View" (which I liked very much), it took some patience and stamina to get to the end. I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle part dragged at some points. I liked it still, though not as much as A Room or Passage to India.
I got this book (and another one) as a reward for myself for passing a dreaded exam. After reading "A Passage to India" (which I loved) I thought it might be a good idea to check out other works by E.M. Forster. I haven't gotten far yet with this one, but I think I might like "Passage" more than this.
I have a severe case of Peter Pan syndrome. How about anyone else? I think everyone does. About 20 more days until I'm moved into my new home for a year, in a new state, over 1000 miles away from home. Sure, I want to go, I have been pretty bored this summer. When it finally hits you, though... holy hell.
This is what happened to my desk during the last week. Not as neat as you last saw it from the contents of my bag. I've just been shoveling things on here and reading like mad, listening to obscure things (ABBA and A*Teens being my favorite), and not wanting to start packing or clean more things out. The result? A pig sty. My desk is mild... the other parts of my room- I have blankets, and a tennis racket, books, other magazines, cds and hatboxes scattered everywhere. I don't know how I live!
I met my roommate today, who happened to be in then LA area, and it was spooky how much we have in common. I'm extremely happy that I didn't get a lame roommate who is picky and such. I know we're going to get along very well.
If you read all those notes, you must have been super bored.
A little but essential interruption to my Yorkshire & London Grand Tour pics.
I'm a huge fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I've read the book many times and love the lively characters in the book. Written 200 years ago in the early 1800s yet the story told by Jane Austen still happens and applies to our society today. Pride and Prejudice is timeless and universal, which is probably why the book is as popular as ever.
I added this photo here because part of my London trip was to visit some places mentioned in the book.
In the 1970s I rented the rooms occupying the front of the first floor at 22 Werter Road, Putney. It was much later that I discovered that 22 Werter Road was formerly the home of the novelist E.M. Forster.
The rent was 6 pounds and 10 shillings (£6.50) a week. To put that in perspective, the rent represented over a third of my take home pay as a graduate with a good honours degree.
Writers at Work - The Paris Review
edited by Malcolm Cowley
cover design by Robert Hallock
Contents
Introduction: How Writers Write (by Malcolm Cowley)
1. E.M. Forster (Interview by P.N. Furbank and F.J.H. Haskell)
2. François Mauriac (Interview translated by John Train and Lydia Moffat)
3. Joyce Cary (Interview by John Burrows and Alex Hamilton)
4. Dorothy Parker (Interview by Marion Capron)
5. James Thurber (Interview by George Plimpton and Max Steele)
6. Thornton Wilder (Interview by Richard H. Goldstone)
7. William Faulkner (Interview by Jean Stein vanden Heuvel)
8. Georges Simenon (Interview by Carvel Collins)
9. Frank O'Connor (Interview by Anthony Whittier)
10. Robert Penn Warren (Interview by Ralph Ellison and Eugene Walter)
11. Alberto Moravia (Interview by Anna Maria De Dominicis and Ben Johnson)
12. Nelson Algren (Interview by Alston Anderson and Terry Southern)
13. Angus Wilson (Interview by Michael Millgate)
14. William Styron (Interview by Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton)
15. Truman Capote (Interview by Pati Hill)
16. Françoise Sagan (Interview by Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers)
Copyright 1957, 1958 by the Paris Review, Inc.
This copy is a sixth printing, November 1965, from the COMPASS BOOKS EDITION issued in 1959 by the Viking Press, Inc.
Printed in the USA by the Colonial Press, Inc.
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...at least I prefer books to many other things - don't even get me started on diamonds.
I got those two as a reward for passing a dreaded exam. Landline by Rainbow Rowell is an awesome read if you're into romance a bit; it has great characters in it and a weird twist to it (in a good way).
January 2015
Cut-paper collage postcard created for the Kollage Kit theme: "Only One Book/Magazine." The challenge is that all of this week's collages have to come from just one book or magazine. I chose the January 2014 issue of National Geographic.
The title is from E. M. Forster, of course, from his novel Howard's End: "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."
A group of young Japanese tourists enjoy some Eglish tea in an English country Garden.
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The Grantchester Group
This avant-garde group of intellectuals would pontificate over a cup of tea in this old English orchard in the village of Grantchester near the university city of Cambridge...
Rupert Brooke
Bertrand Russell
E.M. Forster
Maynard Keynes
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Virginia Woolf
Augustus John
Virgina Woolf dubbed this group, "The Neo-Pagans"
The picture quality is poor due to accidentally having incorrect camera settings
e.g. Exposure Bias +5/3 EV !
1952; Famous British short Stories, Anthology edited by Lyle Blair. Cover art by Peter Chadwick. With stories by: Rudyard Kipling, Kathleen Mansfield, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Max Beerbohm, Stephen Leacock, W. Somerset Maugham, Saki, Henry Lawson, M.R. James, Baron Corvo and Mulk Raj Anand
From my bookshelves, literature from Germany, United Kingdom, Colombia, USA, Russia, Peru, Czech Republic, France, translated in Portuguese.
Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John dos Passos, Alfred Döblin, Ernest Hemingway, Mikhail Bulgakov, Doris Lessing, Evelyn Waugh, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, E.M. Forster, Céline, V. S. Naipaul, Boris Vian, Henri Alain-Fournier.
Includes four Nobel Prizes, or am I wrong ?
E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
Penguin Books - Harmondsworth, 1989
Cover: Indore, Central India, where a stone bridge spans the river Soor, by William Simpson
Penguin first edition published in 1963
Cover design by Keith Whitehead (Photo of E.M.Forster by Radio Times Hulton Picture Library)
'Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them...I never expect anything to happen now, and so I am never disappointed...I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it - and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die - I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.'
Where Angels Fear To Tread (1905) - E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster : Le plus long des voyages
( The Longest Journey)
Traduit par Charles Mauron
Collection 10/18, n° 1544
Union Générale d' Éditions - Paris, 1983
Couverture "bak Holiday", William Strang