Sporting Outdoors > Blue crayon

http://mleddy.blogspot.com [Orange Crate Art] According to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau seems always to have carried, "in his pocket, his diary and pencil." So why did Thoreau ”” who had worked with his father to produce the very best lead pencils manufactured in America in the 1840s ”” neglect to list even one among the essential things to take on an excursion? Perhaps the very object with which he may have been drafting his list was too close to him, too familiar a part of his own everyday outfit, too integral a part of his livelihood, too common a thing for him to think to mention.When my daughter Rachel made a list of supplies for an imaginary camping trip (at the age of six or seven, I think), she was careful to include the blue crayon with which she wrote her list.

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http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com [Kulturindustrie.blogspot.com] Culture Industry: Before I launch into the next Ruskin installment, let me draw your attention to the latest issue of Parnassus: Poetry in Review (that is, 29.1 & 2), which includes both Eric’s wonderful essay on novels with poets as characters (originally titled “Buffy the Poetry Slayer,” until some spoilsport made him tone it down) and my own “Still Diving the Mauberley Trench,” an omnibus review of big books by the very excellent John Matthias. (Oddly enough, I had spent some minutes in NYC at the Met staring at Gustave Moreau’s “Oedipus and the Sphinx,” only to find it waiting for me when I got home, reproduced on the magazine’s cover in far clearer definition than would seem possible.)

[Thisfish.ivillage.com] This Fish Needs a Bicycle -- A Blog That Celebrates Single Life at ...: I do believe it’s called, stream of consciousness, and if HD Thoreau (or whomever), can get away with a whole book of this crap, I can certainly put it in my own blog.

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