http://www.walkingraven.com A Miscellany. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:01:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented ... http://www.walkingraven.com/2010/06/happy-bloomsday-6/ For those of you who don’t already know it, I’m on the list awaiting a lung transplant. [Well, maybe someone has arrived here through www.stumbleupon.com or the like.] I have severe COPD; i.e., “end-stage emphysema” as it was called back in the days of plain speaking. Since being ... http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/12/part-the-second/ I saw again this morning that which will be the death of me. By-product of my misspent youth. No one ever told me I could misspend so soon. cko December 3, 2009 http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/12/obstruction/ “I heard the Bell toll for some that were dead.” Pilgrim's Progess, John Bunyan “[A]nd therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/12/poetry-found/ For two years, or so, I have been sporadically constructing a Walking Raven post, the working title for which has been the “Mother of All Blog Entries” (“MOABE”). I have now decided to publish it in serialized form in the hope that as pieces get fed cloudward (I ... http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/11/part-the-first/ On this day one year ago at or about the hour of 1:20 a.m. PST the music died. The rest is silence. http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/11/in-memoriam/ The Teaching Company offers a 24 lecture course entitled “The Great Philosophical Debate: Free Will and Determinism.” The “Buy-This-Course” blurb uses Saul Smilansky as its example of a contemporary philosopher who “believes that we do not have free will but that we must keep it a secret from the masses” ... http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/10/of-turtle-bones-arrows-and-awo/ "Who'll hang Judas Iscariot?" -- James Joyce, Ulysses http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/06/happy-bloomsday-5/ I found this document today, tucked in a Word folder entitled "Pages." I reproduce it here, [nearly] untouched. 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, September 10, 2002 Okay, how to proceed from here. If I write these pages in cursive pen to paper, folks will have a difficult time reading them. So, ... http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/05/im-not-sayin-im-lost-exactly-but-certainly-off-course/ No eye is on the sparrow and nobody's watching me = Cave, Cave Dominus videt -- NOT! http://www.walkingraven.com/2009/04/synonymic-2/