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Category Archives: POETIC NONSENSE
Poetry by Lawrence R. Spencer. Poetic nonsense by Lawrence R. Spencer and others. Haiku poems by Lawrence R. Spencer.
LAND OF THE DEAD
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In the fanciful world of the Pirates of The Caribbean films, the living and the dead sail the same seas together — one above, one below. The dead share the same thirst, hunger and lust as the living, but cannot slake them unless they inhabit a body. Yet, how much different are the adventures of the living and dead? Those beings with bodies are called the “living”. Yet, are not those without bodies also alive in eternity as spiritual beings? Physical sensation is pale, fragile and temporary and nearly always far less satisfying than imagined in the mind! Inevitably every “living” person will sail The Sea of Life to the same destination: The Land of The Dead. Who accept the “living” claim that “gettin’ back” is the problem?
It’s easy to die. Everyone does it inevitably. But, how easy is it to “live” in a body? The real problem for a spiritual being is Living in The Land of The Dead eternally. And, perhaps, it may be wise to avoid “gettin’ back” all together to save repeating the same folly that caused the pain, sorry and disappointments we suffered because we were encumbered by a body!
~ Lawrence R. Spencer. 2016
WHERE WERE YOU A YEAR AGO? (IN GALACTIC YEARS)
EVIL AESTHETICS
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“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE THE ABILITY OF ARTISTS TO INVENT AN AESTHETIC TO MASK THE PRESENCE OF EVIL.”
— Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012 —
MADNESS
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Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo (lower class of Spanish nobility) who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote’s rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood.
Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the “best literary work ever written”, and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible. — (ref: Wikipedia.org)