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Reading Rilke Again

Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life Jun 11. 0 Replies

If your a writer and you haven't read Rilke's, Letters to a Young Poet, do yourself a favor.  It lives by my bedside and travels everywhere I go, I am currently wearing out my fourth copy. –Rainier Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet) “Go into yourself.  Search for the reason that bids you write: find out whether it is spreading its roots into the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write.  This above all--ask yourself in…Continue

CB Members' Award-Winning Books

Started by Roman Payne in Books We’re Reading Jun 11. 0 Replies

June 11th 2013 - Here are a couple CB members we're showing off today:  Bob van Laerhoven (Belgium) and Lee Case (USA)...CB Member Bob van Laerhoven's novel (written in Dutch) won the Hercule Poirot Prize for best suspense novel of the year.  He now has a literary agent in the USA and has recorded an English language MP3 to introduce CulturalBook members to his oeuvre:…Continue

How best to serialise?

Started by Danny Jorgensen in Publishing Jun 7. 0 Replies

I want ot serialise a story I'm working on, and I'm trying to  work out how best ot start publishing.The story that will consist of around 120 chapters (prob 4000-6000 words each), spaced five years apart for the body of the story. I should be able to start releasing them in a month or so.I was thinking of putting out the first few chapters for free, to get feedback and so on, and then publish them one at a time, every week or two, for about 15-30 cents each. Probably on Kobo, Kindle, and…Continue

Member Opportunities / ♪ by Lee Crase / ✎ by Pietros Maneos

Started by Roman Payne in Free Member Offers Jun 7. 0 Replies

Members, you are invited to share your...  ✎ Literary Quotes✎            and/or       ♪ Audio Files ♪Information Below ▼ But first...Please listen to this audio recording by CulturalBook member Lee Crase: Bleeding-History-Lee-Crase.m4aPlease read today's literary quote (DLQ) by CB member Pietros Maneos: www.dailyliteraryquote.comTo…Continue

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DISCUSSION: The Furious Poet and A Damned German Keyboard...

Started by Roman Payne in Music. Last reply by Chalice Divine Jun 7. 8 Replies

Scheiße !! It's the novelist's nightmare: the keyboard on my laptop broke almost 24 hours ago... it is a keyboard in English, as the novel I am writing is in English...  And since I live in Paris, I cannot find a keyboard English very easily.  So, in despair, I first bought an external keyboard French (a language I know fluently); but since French keyboards have the letters all in the wrong order.  But this proved clumsy to write on, so I then bought a keyboard in German (a language I do not…Continue

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Colette Quote Today

Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life. Last reply by Curtiss Plaskon Jun 2. 1 Reply

This was an excellent “heads up” for me, just the reminder I needed!  But if I may be so presumptuous as to add: You must become a writer before you can become an author, and that means writing down all the “twaddle” as Katherine Mansfield called it.“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.” Katherine Mansfield Continue

Just Say No!

Started by Gatzby in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Terri Price Jun 1. 8 Replies

In my inbox (my reply follows)-Hello, CulturalBook members. In the past week we've acquired about a dozen new members whose profiles promote some kind of wellness product: colon cleanse, weight loss, wrinkle cream, and other similar products that have nothing to do with the theme of CulturalBook. Also, most of their profile photos vs. profile descriptions clearly show that somehow they have done an excellent job of changing genders.Should these "members" be deleted? Please let me know your…Continue

BOYTA 2012 AWARDS

Started by João Cerqueira in CulturalBook the Website May 31. 0 Replies

 NEW%20BOTYA%20sticker-Finalist%20gold.jpgMy novel The Tragedy of Fidel Castro is one of the BOTYA 2012 Finalists in Translations. The others are Dom Quixote, by Cervantes; The plain in flames by Juan Rulfo; and The world Eve left us by Boston Teran.…Continue

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tolerance

Posted by Jack Spratt on June 19, 2013 at 12:46am 0 Comments

The peace I know upon awakening within the cyclonic change, surfing rogue waves, somewhat akin to awakening before execution at dawn is: Attributable to my merciless engagement with vanity, my own.…

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pruning myself

Posted by Jack Spratt on June 16, 2013 at 5:26pm 0 Comments

Falling, mortally wounded by exhaustion, both physical and psychological, to sleep, I dream and in the dreams are dialogs. And this one was a massive endless conversation about love. In reference of which I now envision pruning…

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loom of dawn

Posted by Jack Spratt on June 15, 2013 at 2:51pm 0 Comments

Woven together on the loom of our time, we the many dissimilar threads, which in their turn are woven by birth and life’s experience form the fabric, or tapestry, of our collective history going forward. Making the bone yard of what…

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The Catch. A Short Story

Posted by Isham Cook on June 15, 2013 at 2:30pm 0 Comments

The more is known about a Shandong woman, the more unknowable she becomes

"Well, what happened?"

"Let me tell the whole story from the start. She's tall with glamorous movie star eyes, tits on the small side but a nice round set of hips. The first time we met she was wearing green army pants, the kind with all the pockets, a tight black shirt and sunglasses, which she took off as soon as we sat down…

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tolerance

The peace I know upon awakening within the cyclonic change, surfing rogue waves, somewhat akin to awakening before execution at dawn is: Attributable to my merciless engagement with vanity, my own.Stripping my sense of self naked to enter a new land, indicated by intuition born four years ago. The actual sight of which, myself naked, is to me merely a road map of experience; but otherwise the body of a boy become an old man laughing at him self.Less able, or willing, to conceptualize The Author of All Things as either male or female, but something, utterly, else. By whom all are called to be lovers of life. . . .For all living. Of the few who answer, some remain more notable than others; annotated by their martyrdom for inconvenience to the prevailing ideals; thereafter become idols for a few who remain the general…See More
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pruning myself

Falling, mortally wounded by exhaustion, both physical and psychological, to sleep, I dream and in the dreams are dialogs. And this one was a massive endless conversation about love. In reference of which I now envision pruning the tree of myself. The less productive parts away that the tree not merely survive but grow stronger and taller . . . and it hurts!About her is the promise of a Promised Land, what I’ve sought for a lifetime. And for which and what I am dying for. Yet my courage flags, fails, slumps like a wrung out dish towel quavering. Her courage is equal, if not greater, to mine and proven over four years organically. Love sweet and savage tending to those about to die with kindness and compassion; a love that transcends gender expression. For to see us is nothing special just two people in…See More
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loom of dawn

Woven together on the loom of our time, we the many dissimilar threads, which in their turn are woven by birth and life’s experience form the fabric, or tapestry, of our collective history going forward. Making the bone yard of what the next generations will stand upon.What will they say of us?Our accomplishments and failures?If I grew to this age of seventy-two skeptical, skepticism began curling fetal beneath elementary school desks awaiting the implosion of glass windows, bricks and mortar shredding: me—schoolmates—the entirety of our time. Threats of extinction remain in differing forms. Most prevalent is the slander of children defined as vocational education for which we will only question at the advent of middle-age when death and boredom predominate our attention.Through my childhood another education was…See More
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The Catch. A Short Story

The more is known about a Shandong woman, the more unknowable she becomes"Well, what happened?""Let me tell the whole story from the start. She's tall with glamorous movie star eyes, tits on the small side but a nice round set of hips. The first time we met she was wearing green army pants, the kind with all the pockets, a tight black shirt and sunglasses, which she took off as soon as we sat down in the café. That was important. If there's one thing I can't handle it's people who don't take their sunglasses off. I need to see someone's face the first time I meet them. Hers turned out to be so attractive that I immediately assumed I didn't stand a chance winging a second date out of her. In fact I wondered what someone of her breeding was doing seeking guys online in the first place.""Wow.""Well, we had dinner a few days later, and get this, she invited me to visit her mother's home in Weihai, out on the Shandong coast, that very weekend! At first I was like, how weird, is this a…See More
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moving forward to a new life

Moving is a pain in the sit down and heart; a death really, while one wonders is there life afterwards? Yet it, as death, is exactly what I envisioned when first considering the idea. My current residency is within an elderly community wherein it is not uncommon to see the dumpster filled with someone else idea of precious things.And I have moved so frequently you’d think I’d know better than to collect mementoes of the various rites of passage from one modality to another. But I have, and find myself chagrined at what was once precious; indicative of a future never inhabited. Some dearly bought still sealed in shipping tape and quite expensive by any measure.Absolutely, I am not the things that possess me, regardless of their once-upon-a-time desirability. Not “Buyers Remorse” but simple indifference since…See More
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We are common dust, moistened into clay, become brick and mortar. Interjected into which is life. Precious? For me it is. And when I awoke this AM I sensed something happened in my sleep, a dream, so bewildering, I had no sense of it until I encountered the daily quotes: Wisdom and annotated experience of others. Interjections: both the dream and those whose words I seek to explain my experience to myself.Perception is important. Especially if you rely exclusively upon your dominant inherent vision/version of what life is and for. Education is generally regarded as a survival modality; applied to endow security for which there is none, never was and never will be. But to educate yourself, continual, is how you see can liberate you from slavery. I can explain my thesis in manifold ways but for now…See More
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Reading Rilke Again

If your a writer and you haven't read Rilke's, Letters to a Young Poet, do yourself a favor.  It lives by my bedside and travels everywhere I go, I am currently wearing out my fourth copy. –Rainier Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet) “Go into yourself.  Search for the reason that bids you write: find out whether it is spreading its roots into the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write.  This above all--ask yourself in the stillest hours of your night; must I write? ...if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple I must, then build your life according to this necessity… Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.”See More
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Born Again

The Poetry machine keeps churning out new ones the way the night sky shines with new stars, and wayup there, behind whatever clouds coast across the night sky, new stars are born to shinethe way bookshelves are cleared, making way for new tomes of Poems lighting bright against the dark.Some days I flip through old books and get depressed with the thought that all the good ones have been writtenbut I might as well be looking at last year’s calendar, seeing how all the days have already expired.Stars & Poems never expire, they just shine across the darkness and get born all over again.© th11VI Furious PoeticsSee More
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If you’re very quiet, listening close, you can hear the snow fall sounding like the stroking of a cat’s fur. Then a purring like sound coming up out of your soul. For me it was either that or going completely mad with ennui. Instead I’d turn to the right or left and talk to the fellow travelers to the internment camps selected for death or slave labor where it stops. The snow finding new groves, slides, drifts and piles.Somewhere back, long ago, I thought I had to special but from the get go was told otherwise: I was “just a grain of sand upon a beach” extending continent wide, a desert. But then I’ve found, if you look real close, grains of sand are like snowflakes all different singing different songs and psalms. Seems like to me that I seek what is unique in…See More
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