tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31623505471336890842024-03-19T14:39:38.191-04:00Haiku-likeThese short poems & quasi-essays are experiments & explorations. I also merge pictures and text to create a third meaning from the two. Like Nietzsche I want to say in 30 words or less what others take hundreds to say. I am both a photographer and a writer and my visual and written work have been widely published. Text, design & research by me, Rick Doble unless otherwise noted. Images are from commons.wikimedia.org unless otherwise noted.Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-86349388249898079292018-12-14T09:46:00.000-05:002018-12-14T09:46:43.396-05:00Winter Solstice - 2018<div style="background-color: #2a00ff; color: black; padding: 10px;">
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-50096874140421564862018-08-26T07:46:00.001-04:002018-08-26T07:48:28.754-04:00The Fairness of Life<div style="text-align: center;">
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-65261180354344774622018-04-29T07:02:00.000-04:002018-05-02T07:07:04.081-04:00Who Are You?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-29601929993831980742018-03-31T15:49:00.000-04:002018-03-31T15:49:41.857-04:00Orville Wright About Why Airplanes Fly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-85056938228545145742018-02-27T06:22:00.000-05:002018-02-27T06:24:38.260-05:00Quote from the actor, Edward G. Robinson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-77354299959830658942018-01-29T05:27:00.000-05:002018-01-29T05:27:02.541-05:00How-To Learn From the Past<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="color: white;"> That Revealed The Real World</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Full shot of the astronomical clock (left) with the animated figures (right) </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that parade and move every hour, known as the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Zytglogge bellworks</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Father Time sits next to the astronomical clock </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and presides over the animated figures who parade every hour</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A figure representing Chronos, the Greek god of time, <br />who strikes the bell, that was cast in 1405, on the hour</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="background-color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Late one night </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> after struggling with the physics of light, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Albert heard the distinctive ring </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white; font-size: x-large;"> of Bern's Zytglogge clock tower, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> with its 500 year-old bell </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> struck by a figure </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> representing Chronos, the Greek god of time. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> In a flash </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> he was riding a streetcar </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> at the speed of light </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> and looking back at the time </b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> on the Bern clock </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> which froze </b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> because the light from its later time </b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> could never catch him. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> Yet he could see the minutes </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> continuing. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> And then he knew </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #0b5394;"> time was relative. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">around the time Einstein lived in Bern</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Plato</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There comes a point where the mind takes a leap </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>— call it intuition or what you will — </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>but can never prove how it got there. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>All great discoveries have involved such a leap.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Albert Einstein</b></span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-80768249686000854352017-11-27T08:47:00.001-05:002017-11-27T08:47:09.812-05:00Franz Schubert's Last Sonata<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major, D. 960 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> How amazing </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> that just before he died </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> across the centuries </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Completed September 26, 1828</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Schubert died November 19, 1828, age 31</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Franz Schubert: 1797 - 1828 </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...until the last weeks of his life in November 1828, he continued to compose an extraordinary amount of music, including such masterpieces as the three last sonatas."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert%27s_last_sonatas">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert%27s_last_sonatas</a> </span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-7155920959193569152017-10-01T04:55:00.002-04:002017-10-01T04:55:49.976-04:00End of the World<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><i>The End of the World</i></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>They</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>the world</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>was going</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>to end</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>today</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">so I took the day off --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">and listened for the end of time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">This is great I thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">we should do this more often</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Just let it stop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">let the future become a blank</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">a question we don't have to answer</span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-31586491635590550432017-09-06T06:52:00.000-04:002017-09-06T06:52:46.238-04:00Prometheus in the 21st Century<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Really when you think about it, our patron saint </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[of the modern technological world] </span></div>
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<i>is Prometheus who stole fire from the gods.</i></div>
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Eugen Weber, Professor of History, UCLA</div>
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Public Television Series: <i>The Western Tradition</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> The Greek God Prometheus, father of mankind, stealing fire from the Gods</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Stealing fire from the Gods -- </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Left) A simple match (Right) A midsummer bonfire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Our fate is now</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>tied to our ability</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>to understand </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>and then to manage nature</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>To become managers </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>of planet Earth</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> (Left) Fire out of control (Right) Photo of the fireball of first US atomic bomb test, Trinity</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have to learn to cherish this Earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.</span></i></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-60716943895013835082017-08-13T07:33:00.002-04:002017-08-13T07:33:50.408-04:00I Think, Therefore I Am<div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What does it mean to be? To say I am? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This Haiku-like blog is the sequel to the previous blog: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A Chorus of Frogs After the Rain</i> (just below this one)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Diagram from one of René Descartes' works." https://commons.wikimedia.org</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think, therefore I am.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>René Descartes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also: Cogito ergo sum.<br />Je pense, donc je suis.</span></div>
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Portrait of Rousseau dressed in an Armenian outfit.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel, therefore I am.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jean-Jacques Rousseau </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I continue, therefore I am.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet even more fundamental than thought or feeling<br />is that awake or asleep we continue<br />and keep on going as long as we exist.</span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0Beaufort, NC 28516, USA34.7182174 -76.66381860000001334.6138309 -76.825180100000011 34.8226039 -76.502457100000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-74848862375663771852017-08-06T05:31:00.000-04:002017-08-06T05:33:01.183-04:00A Chorus of Frogs After the Rain<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">The Rain Is Over</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We know the rain is over --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">the rain so hard it shook the roof,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">blurred the windows,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">till it was almost night --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We know the rain is over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">because now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">the choir of frogs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">has grown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">and reached a pitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">almost as loud as the rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">A chorus with that traditional song</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">and those old familiar words:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I am"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I am"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Note: In 1999 in the darkening twilight, the coarse pixels on my first digital camera, a primitive Casio, changed back and forth on the</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> monitor </i><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from color to darker color as the sky faded and as I framed the scene for my next shot. Crude as it was, to see a photograph in real time was a miracle -- as this had never been possible during my 30 years working with film photography.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">On the edge of darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">in real time --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(An early selfie -- my face was lit with a neon light.)</span></div>
Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-69057845891783485862017-06-30T17:37:00.000-04:002017-06-30T17:37:03.818-04:00Layers of Language<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> IT'S ALL LANGUAGE </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ea9999;"> Literal: </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> This rose is red. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> The sun is setting. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The sun sets later in the summer </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> Many flowers display various shades of red. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> Metaphoric: </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> A young girl is like a beautiful flower. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> When the sun sets, it is like a door closing. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The girl in her red dress dances </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> like the sun's last moments before it sets. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"> Synthesis: </span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> At the darkest days of the year </span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> to prevent the sun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">'Recipe' :) For Camera-Movement <br /> Light-Painting Abstract Photographs</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All photographs by Rick Doble.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Note:<i> This recipe is like baking cookies, one cookie at a time.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>We recommend 'baking' these photos for at least an 8 second shutter speed with a very low ISO and a dark environment. You move the camera to "spread, fold, chop, sprinkle and knead." You might also want to experiment using different white balance settings.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Find a piece of light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">A crack around a door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">a glint through a window --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">it does not have to be large</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">as a little goes a long way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And remember each glimmer is different:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">one can be smooth and limber</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Next hold that streak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">then spread, fold, chop, sprinkle, knead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Then take a look,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And go back and grab another piece of light</span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0Beaufort, NC 28516, USA34.7182174 -76.66381860000001334.6138309 -76.825180100000011 34.8226039 -76.502457100000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-50771897407409456452017-04-25T04:06:00.000-04:002017-04-25T04:07:05.862-04:00Living in the Moment<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b> LIVING IN THE MOMENT </b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> For only a minute </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> once a day </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> turn off your cell phone </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> put your mental checklist aside </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> stop thinking about </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"> what you're going to do next </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>what you should have done earlier </b></span></span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-1295576333636789622017-03-29T06:33:00.002-04:002017-03-29T06:33:45.289-04:00What People Say And Do Is Different<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: #ffe599;"> What People Mean </u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><u style="background-color: #ffe599;"> by Margaret Mead </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">An incantation or enchantment is a charm or spell created using words.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The term derives from Latin "incantare" (tr.), meaning "to chant (a magical spell) upon," from in- "into, upon" and cantare "to sing".</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incantation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incantation</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Considered by many to be the most perfect poem in the English language, Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan sings with its own enchanting music.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> A Vision In A Dream </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>In Xanadu did Kubla Khan </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A stately pleasure-dome decree: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Where Alph, the sacred river, ran </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Through caverns measureless to man </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Down to a sunless sea. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I would build that dome in air, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And all who heard should see them there, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>And all should cry, Beware! Beware! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>His flashing eyes, his floating hair! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Weave a circle round him thrice, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The Work of the Imagination</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-work-of-imagination.html">http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-work-of-imagination.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The History of the Future</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-history-of-future.html">http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-history-of-future.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>-- a long held tradition --</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"Let us consider that we are all insane. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It will explain us to each other; </i></span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-35168965248324213622016-11-21T06:22:00.000-05:002016-11-21T06:22:43.105-05:00New Translation - Pascal: The heart has its reasons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"> The heart has its reasons </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Raison </i>(reason) in French has multiple shades of meaning such as<i> raison d'être</i></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>(reason for being) and <i>la raison </i>(in the sense of being rational). The power of Pascal's phrase is a play on these two meanings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a different problem with translating the French verb <i>connaître</i></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i>(know) which means being familiar with vs. the French verb <i>savoir</i> which means to have knowledge of or to know how -- as these two ways of knowing are expressed by these two separate verbs. However, the word <i>know </i>in English has both meanings, i.e. I know this person and I know how to speak French. So I needed to shade the English word <i>know</i> with some additional meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Raison</i> and <i>connaître </i>work wonderfully in French but do not translate well into English -- so I took the liberty of deviating from the standard translation. In English <i>heart </i>vs. <i>mind </i>is very clear and is similar to the two French meanings of <i>raison</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As for <i>knowing</i>, I wanted to emphasize the difference between heart and mind -- which I feel is part of Pascal's meaning -- that rational thought cannot know the reasons of the heart. I also find it very interesting that Pascal, a master mathematician who created one of the world's first adding and calculating machines, had such a profound understanding of the workings of the heart vs. his reasoning as a mathematician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While my translation takes liberties with the French literal meaning, I believe my translation conveys the meaning and also the rhythm better than the standard ones.</span></div>
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Rick Doblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156455976281649370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162350547133689084.post-34481014394833355562016-11-11T04:33:00.004-05:002016-11-11T15:28:47.352-05:00Veterans Day: November 11, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Why is November 11 Veterans Day?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">It is the anniversary of the signing of the WWI Armistice.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">"</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany... It went into effect at 11 a.m. Paris time on 11 November 1918 ("the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month")..."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>PERSONAL NOTE:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My father was a veteran of the First World War. As one of the first American soldiers at the front, he </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">served with a machine gun battalion </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and then was captured and held as a prisoner of war for a year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">November 11, 1918 has a special meaning for me, because at that time my father was near death at the prison camp. Everyone in Germany, especially prisoners of war, were starving due to the Allied </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Blockade. If signing the armistice had taken another month, my father would probably have died and I would not be here today to write this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Anthem for Doomed Youth (1918)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">By Wilfred Owen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Original poem line breaks: <a href="http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen2.html">http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen2.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> for these who die as cattle? </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> — Only the monstrous anger </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> of the guns. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> Only the stuttering rifles' </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> rapid rattle </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> Can patter out their hasty orisons. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> No mockeries now for them; </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> no prayers nor bells; </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> Nor any voice of mourning </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> — The shrill, demented choirs </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> of wailing shells; </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> And bugles calling for them </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> of goodbyes. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> The pallor of girls' brows </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This poem has been interpreted by a number of people.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>What follows are several YouTube videos of this work:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Benjamin Britten: <i>War Requiem: </i>What passing bells for these who die as cattle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eCuA79zTc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eCuA79zTc</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen's <i>Anthem for Doomed Youth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDoon91vZk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDoon91vZk</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A modern interpretation by Jos Slabbert </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Anthem for Doomed Youth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abe Lincoln reading to his son Tad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> The written word </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> is not the spoken </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> conversational word </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(TOP) "The earliest known draft of the <i>United States Declaration of Independence</i>, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a fragment in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson. June 1776."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The numerous words that were crossed out, inserted </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and changed shows how the written word is usually crafted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(BOTTOM) Top of a finished polished </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Declaration of Independence</i> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">published version, known as a broadside. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> The written word is molded, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> crafted and polished </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> And does not include </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> the body language and </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> the silent expressions </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"> of speech </span></span></div>
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