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Kerouac's comment on this too-big world
Started by ROBERT BERKELEY in Literature Talk 5 hours ago. 0 Replies 1 Love
Kerouac's: sweetly, bitterly, poignantly true..ships in the night passing ..a rainy day in Copenhagen, a train pulls in and a princess within looks out..our eyes meet, once..twice...the train departs ,she nods. I place my hand on my heart and am rewarded with an eternal smileContinue
The French Resistance has sent you a message: "Did yourMP3s arrive safely ?"
Started by Roman Payne in Music on Tuesday. 0 Replies 1 Love
The French Resistance has sent you a message...: "Did yourMP3s arrive safely ?"I wrote earlier to say that: “I buried the corpse of my poor dead laptop, as well as the German keyboard who killed it. And I bought a beautiful new French Resistance laptop with a French keyboard!! :-) " ... the only problem is the French keyboard is “laid-out” as oddly as the French people are “laid-back”... so I kept hitting “Send” (“Envoyez”) by accident. Excusez-Moi !!a) I need to wait for Lee Crase to…Continue
DISCUSSION: The Furious Poet and A Damned German Keyboard...
Started by Roman Payne in Music. Last reply by Glenda Stryker on Tuesday. 7 Replies 4 Loves
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
Today's Quote
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life May 16. 0 Replies 0 Loves
Aloha Roman, I was prepared to dislike today's quote (some feminist knee jerk I guess) but instead I loved it and just forwarded it to two other people, one man and one woman, it's an equal opportunity quote. Mahalo!Continue
Just Say No!
Started by Gatzby in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Debra S. Edgington May 16. 7 Replies 2 Loves
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
Lice, Rice, Fleas & Cold Eggs. Police Powers & Staff Email Addresses. All this can be yours today!
Started by Roman Payne in Small Talk May 16. 0 Replies 3 Loves
Members have asked: "Why are emails to staff@culturalbook.com being returned unsent?"Answer: This email address was receiving too much spam... so we shut it down. Helpful CB Staff Email Addresses:GABRIEL KIRKLAND - gabriel@culturalbook.com - Gabriel is the one to contact for all things "marketing" ...if you have free paperback books, ebooks, or audio books to offer to members, contact him. If…Continue
Discussion: Calling All Members Who Want to Hear and/or Post Original CB Members' Songs
Started by Roman Payne in Music May 16. 0 Replies 1 Love
Would you like to hear CB Members' songs? Do you have original songs/recordings to contribute? Let me explain:First, here is a song that I wrote for the guitar, ("The Song of the Revolution"), which I sing on this free MP3 recording you can download here: http://www.romanpayne.com/audio/MP3Z_songs-of-roman-payne/song-of-the-revolution.mp3(NOTE: For those of you who know the great poet of…Continue
Dear Entrepreneurs and/or Authors: I am seeking fun promotional products or giveaway copies...
Started by Roman Payne in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Lee Crase May 13. 4 Replies 6 Loves
Dear Entrepreneurs and/or Authors,I would like to reward CulturalBook members for posting interesting blog posts, prose, poetry, photos, as well as for taking part in contests, etc...So I am looking to purchase fun promotional products related to culture, literature, gourmet, and such...I am also hoping to get some giveaway copies from published authors...If you want to promote your work, your art, your company; or if you wish to earn a little cash, please write to me at …Continue
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Don't miss it! Giveaway for The Secret Rescue ends TOMORROW
Posted by Michelle Lancaster on May 24, 2013 at 10:05pm 0 Comments 1 Love
The book giveaway for The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry ends TOMORROW, Saturday, May 25. This is a new release, a hardback first edition courtesy of the generous folks over at Little, Brown. Don't miss it!…
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quickening
Posted by Jack Spratt on May 24, 2013 at 12:26am 0 Comments 1 Love
An observation about solitude and creative/artistic endeavors. I have no literary friends with whom to query the good or ill of what/how/why…
Continue ain't no
Posted by Jack Spratt on May 23, 2013 at 6:24pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
ain't no jack-in-the-pulpit, pussy-toes, posey, poesy, poet (ry) writer but red poinsettia knocked silly by it: knotweed! Clubbed senseless where I growed!
Poetry that is.
“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the…
Continue latter future
Posted by Jack Spratt on May 23, 2013 at 3:38pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Beyond the Beyond, sometime in the latter future, maybe billions of trillions of years, but who’s counting, by what measure, from now: the language and those who speak/hear it may be gone but the experience of joining Creation will remain. Or mainly what tomorrow will be, of equal measure for me—the many years implied—I’ll be for another what I imply Heaven; that is. Or Whatever will be—will be—of us: two people becoming one and then and then and…
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Violent Suplication
Violent Suplication
A Story by Rusty
He lay awake all night and tended the fire, his mind awash in worry guilt and fear. The one woman in his world that had matter most to him, the one who he wished to impress and give comfort to... was alone and desperate. He was unable to touch her, not that it would change the course of things, but if he could somehow, it might all make sense. It might mean something. But he had failed her. Now in her time of need he was in a distant place. Knowing that distance and seeing the chasm that separated him left him no ability to rest. Her struggle was indeed hers and hers alone but if only… his life was a series of if only’s.
Staring at the fire he tried closing his eyes and all around him he felt her presence. Her breath hot as it was in that cold night when their lips twined and her touch awakening the very sense of his being. Her eyes had vexed him as she had stared intently at him with her finger tracing each flake of snow that fell melting on his bare chest. Every moment since he had first taken her in rushed at him with the scream of a banshee, surrounded him, and his small room grew smaller.
They had said very few words before she left. Speaking instead with their hands and their eyes, lips and tounges. A dance of passion that seemed to have been perfected through thousands of years of practice. Each breath fell upon the other and every motion perfectly matched like a swan to the water. Day became night and night became day passing with little fanfare as any life ceased beyond their two hearts. Having lived in this dream state for weeks neither slept but merely dozed only to awaken to the supple touch of their lover. Nourishment was taken but simply as necessity while quietly they unfolded the parchment of each others soul. The fire was kept burning.
She said little in the weeks leading up to this note. Her saw her determination failing. He tried to ignore it before it grew but he felt it all the same. He could only imagine what had transpired in her heart because she had started making mortar for her heart. Her resolve so perfect in the pronouncements she had made in the way they had loved suddenly paled in comparison to the reality she found herself in. He could not reach her. He could not help. In fact he might have been the very cause of her predicament and that was the worst indictment of all. Perhaps he had been the cause…perhaps.
Could he have counseled her, been her confidant, he might have been able to ease the slope in which she had slid but his ranting had been his own... and the coucil he offered he did not want. His supplications purely a yearning that somehow she would deliver him from his place, the casting about searching for a hand-hold on which to pull himself from the edge of his abyss that love had left him in.
He could not consider that maybe turning away from him was anything but a trite act of self preservation on her part. Her words. Her words tonight, a verdict rendered. He had offered her nothing. Instead he had helped seal her fate. And now left wanting she reached out for something somewhere beyond what they were. And he sat, stunned, paralyzed, wanting nothing more than to listen, be a good companion, a friend. But even that was bullshit. He wanted to hold her. For her sake or his? At this point did it even matter?
Her note simply said:
Please stop. I love you.
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Comment by Dana Bolton (Nickname: DC) on May 9, 2012 at 3:02pm -
Oh, Rusty, That is GREAT!!!! I LOVED IT!!! It touched me so much, especially right now. On, May 4th, I became 'Officially' engaged, but I'm realizing that I don't believe I am 'in love' with this man & I don't know how to handle this. You are so talented! I'm envious. You do have that novel in you. I only have my poetry. I began a book back in '91, but, now, with all that has happened since that time, I have so many different directions going through my head. I am going to post my poem now & I would certainly appreciate your opinion. DC
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