| Thule broadcast is available from this page for a period of 8 weeks, and a new 56k mp3 programme is uploaded each Monday.Melbourne composer Michael Meara.Schmoelling, Enrico Cognilio, Code Indigo and Bruno Sanfilippo.Garret Knobl, age 5, of Blacksburg, Virginia...Richard Burmer and Thom Brennan.Jon Hopkins, Predictive Text and Joey Fehrenbach.Tom Heasley, Matthias Grassow, Jim Cole and Altus.For other uses, see Thule (disambiguation).Greek) is in Classical sources a place, usually an island.Ancient European descriptions and maps locate it either in the far north, often northern Great Britain, possibly the Orkneys or Shetland Islands, or Scandinavia, or, in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, in the west and north, often Iceland or Greenland.Another suggested location is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea.Ultima Thule in medieval geographies may also denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world."Some people use Ultima Thule as the Latin name for Greenland when Thule is used for Iceland.Descriptions of some of his discoveries have survived in the works of later, often skeptical, authors.For example Polybius in his Histories (c.Strabo adds the following in Book II, Chapter 5:
Now Pytheas of Massilia tells us that Thule, the most northerly of the Britannic Islands, is farthest north, and that there the circle of the summer tropic is the same as the Arctic Circle.Strabo ultimately concludes, in Book IV, Chapter 5, "Concerning Thule, our historical information is still more uncertain, on account of its outside position; for Thule, of all the countries that are named, is set farthest north."Finally, in refining the island's location, he places it along the most northerly parallel of those he describes, writing in Book VI, Chapter 34,: "Last of all is the Scythian parallel, from the Rhiphean hills into Thule: wherein (as we said) it is day and night continually by turns (for six months)."D) and the Irish monk Dicuil (late 8th and early 9th century), describe Thule as being North and West of both Ireland and Britain.Dicuil described Thule as being beyond islands that seem to be the Faroes, strongly suggesting Iceland.It is believed that Procopius is really talking about a part of Scandinavia, since several tribes are easily identified, including the Geats (Gautoi) and the Saami (Scrithiphini).Ancient literature
A novel in Greek by Antonius Diogenes entitled The Wonders Beyond Thule appeared c.Thule was "probably Iceland."For though the earth, as far as India's shore, tremble before the laws you give, though Thule bow to your service on earth's farthest bounds, yet if thou canst not drive away black cares, if thou canst not put to flight complaints, then is no true power thine.Agricola, was describing how the Romans know that Britain (which Agricola was commander of) was an Island.He says the ship's crew even sighted Thule, but their orders were not to go there and explore, as winter was at hand.Middle Ages and Renaissance
During the Middle Ages the name was sometimes used to denote Greenland, Svalbard, or Iceland, such as by Bremen's Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where he probably cites old writers' usage of Thule.These things seem wondrous, yet more wondrous I,
Whose heart with fear doth freeze, with love doth fry.Eskimo culture and a predecessor of modern Inuit Greenlanders, was named after the Thule region.In 1953, Thule became Thule Air Base, operated by United States Air Force.The population was forced to resettle to Qaanaaq, 67 miles to the north.Hunting activities here are described in the January 2006 National Geographic.The Scottish Gaelic for Iceland is "Innis Tile", which means literally the "Isle of Thule".Thule lends its name to the 69th element in the periodic table, Thulium.Hyperborea as the ancient origin of the Aryan race.The Traditionalist School expositor Rene Guenon believed in the existence of ancient Thule on "initiatic grounds alone".According to its emblem, the Thule Society was founded in 1919.Thule, linked into the Cosmos through magical powers.They had psychic and technological energies far exceeding the technical achievements of the 20th century.Messiah would come forward to lead the people to this goal."Tallinn, Estonia: Eesti Raamat.The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule.New York: Viking Penguin.See also
Aristeas Another Greek voyage to the far north.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.We invite you to our world, far removed from the relentless punch of modern culture,
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S.References to ultima Thule in modern literature appear in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson.For more details about this feature, visit our Webmaster and Blogger Tools page.Note: If no ads are returned, you could show your own ads.For text ads, append each ad to the string.More from Britannica on "ultima Thule"...References to ultima Thule in modern literature appear in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson.Australian literature articleThe centenary year 1888 provided the occasion for review and reassessment, and almost inevitably that activity encouraged the growing nationalist sentiment already in evidence in such publications as the weekly Bulletin (founded 1880).The last 20 years of the 19th century saw a marked growth of nationalism and the movement toward federation of the separate states.Student Encyclopedia Britannica articles, specially written for elementary and high school studentsShetland IslandsThe northernmost of the British Isles, the Shetland Islands are a unitary district of Scotland, in the United Kingdom.The Australian novelist Ethel Florence Robertson is better known by the pen name Henry Handel Richardson.American poet the world over is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.He was among the first American writers to use native themes.The Courtship of Miles Standish', he wrote about the American scene and landscape.HTTPS is to be used
if (log_location.In the essay 'New Year's Eve', which first appeared in the January 1821 issue of The London Magazine, Lamb reflects wistfully on the passage of time."My title is from Tennyson's In Memoriam; the illustration, published in 1890, is an engraving of Tron Church, Edinburgh, on New Year's Eve.The one is that which in an especial manner he termeth his.But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler.No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.It is the nativity of our common Adam.Or is it owing to another cause; simply, that being without wife or family, I have not learned to project myself enough out of myself; and having no offspring of my own to dally with, I turn back upon memory and adopt my own early idea, as my heir and favourite?The elders, with whom I was brought up, were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred observance of any old institution; and the ringing out of the Old Year was kept by them with circumstances of peculiar ceremony.Yet I then scarce conceived what it meant, or thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me.Those metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality.Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading?At those times do such poor snakes as myself enjoy an immortality.Such hail the end of their existence as a port of refuge; and speak of the grave as of some soft arms, in which they may slumber as on a pillow.In no way can I be brought to digest thee, thou thin, melancholy Privation, or more frightful and confounding Positive!Those antidotes, prescribed against the fear of thee, are altogether frigid and insulting, like thyself.Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest.He looks too from a place so high,The Year lies open to his eye;And all the moments open areTo the exact discoverer.This cannot but make better proof;Or, at the worst, as we brush'd throughThe last, why so we may this too;And then the next in reason shou'dBe superexcellently good:For the worst ills (we daily see)Have no more perpetuity,Than the best fortunes that do fall;Which also bring us wherewithalLonger their being to support,Than those do of the other sort:And who has one good year in three,And yet repines at destiny,Appears ungrateful in the case,And merits not the good he has.Then let us welcome the New GuestWith lusty brimmers of the best;Mirth always should Good Fortune meet,And renders e'en Disaster sweet:And though the Princess turn her back,Let us but line ourselves with sack,We better shall by far hold out,Till the next Year she face about.Do they not fortify like a cordial; enlarging the heart, and productive of sweet blood, and generous spirits, in the concoction?New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters!"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."The immortal Beethoven was born on this day in 1770, 237 long years ago.There is, however, some dispute as to the exact day.Well into adulthood, Beethoven believed he had been born in 1772, and told friends the 1770 baptism was of his older brother Ludwig Maria, who died in infancy; but Ludwig Maria's baptism is recorded as taking place in 1769.Some biographers assert that his father falsified his date of birth in an attempt to pass him off as a child prodigy like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but this is disputed.Children of that era were usually baptized the day after birth, but there is no documentary evidence that this occurred in Beethoven's case.It is known that his family and his teacher Johann Albrechtsberger celebrated his birthday on 16 December.While the evidence supports the probability that 16 December 1770, was Beethoven's date of birth, this cannot be stated with certainty.What is not in dispute is the magnitude of his genius and the ineffable beauty of his music.Beethoven had this gift in a degree that leaves them all panting in the rear guard.When you get the feeling that whatever note succeeds the last is the only possible note that can rightly happen at that instant, in that context, then chances are you're listening to Beethoven.Chaikovskys and Hindemiths and Ravels.Our boy has the real goods, the stuff from Heaven, the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.There is something that checks throughout, that follows its own law consistently: something we can trust, that will never let us down.My title is from Joseph Addison's Song for St.From the article: "It's incredible what you can find in an ordinary garden if you look closely enough.Amateur photographer Brian Valentine specialises in making the everyday look exotic with the wonders of macro photography, using special lens to magnify his subjects."By the way, the title of this post is from William Carlos Williams, and the verse quoted above, from Loves's Labours Lost, concludes with this warning:The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo!Unpleasing to a married ear!Below is an article about this famous incident from the December 13th edition of The Christian Science Monitor .If you are interested in buying pieces of meteorites, I found a website for you: Michael Blood Meteorites.Meteors are rarely mentioned in poetry; my title is from Milton's Paradise Lost.December 13, 2007 edition First recorded U.Prince, Correspondent of The Christian Science MonitorWeston, Conn.Judge Nathan Wheeler started out on his morning constitutional along a country road near here.He'd seen horrible things on the battlefield, but nothing had prepared him for this.Though scientific understanding of what happened would not jell for decades, the awesome event is considered a scientific turning point: It was the first recorded meteorite fall in America.Richard Binzel, chairman of planetary sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The bicentennial is being commemorated here Dec."It was the turn of the century and it was a turning point in understanding meteorites.Until then, meteorites were thought to be a weather phenomenon.Another name for them was actually thunder stones."Accounts from 1492 detail a meteorite falling on Eisenheim, Germany."The sky was falling; it must have been an absolutely amazing, incredible, frightening thing."Gardner of Wrentham, Mass.The sphere, which looked about half the size of the full moon to her, was traveling south between 40,000 and 50,000 m.She wondered, according to her account in a local newspaper, "Where was the moon going to?""Weston retains some of these seeds and so that's important.If we didn't have meteorites we wouldn't know what the Earth was made of or how old it is."Seeley called his wife, and they began carting away pieces of the still warm meteorite.The university dispatched Benjamin Silliman and James Kingsley to interview witnesses.Clearly the Prince family (no relation to this reporter) didn't believe the early bird caught the worm.They barely noticed the explosions, according to Silliman's 1807 report published in The Connecticut Herald."Not even a fresh hole made through the turf ...Aside from interviews, Silliman collected as many stones as possible to study.Phil to celebrate this little big bang.The Christian Science Monitor."Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?"Karen Titchener in Lusk, Wyoming.My title is from Anthony and Cleopatra.Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, whose mother had told him he was born on October 9th.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.The Merchant of VeniceI doubt that even Shakespeare could have imagined a more magically beautiful scene than this!It accompanied Aussiegirl's September 29, 2006 post, which I have pasted in below.Read on about the mysterious properties of moonlight.The moonlight was welcome, but as any farmer could tell you, it was strange stuff.Moonlight steals color from whatever it touches.In full moonlight, the flower is brightly lit and even casts a shadow, but the red is gone, replaced by shades of gray.Film producers often put a blue filter over the lens when filming night scenes to create a more natural feel, and artists add blue to paintings of nightscapes for the same reason.Open a book beneath the full moon.At first glance, the page seems bright enough.Another note: As with all things human, there are exceptions.So what do we make of it all?The human retina is responsible.Cones allow us to see colors (red roses) and fine details (words in a book), but they only work in bright light.Rods are marvelously sensitive (1000 times more so than cones) and are responsible for our night vision.If rods are so sensitive, why can't we use them to read by moonlight?The problem is, rods are almost completely absent from a central patch of retina called the fovea, which the brain uses for reading.Consider this passage from a 2004 issue of the Journal of Vision:"It should be noted that the perception of blue color or any color for that matter in a purely moonlit environment is surprising, considering that the light intensity is below the detection threshold for cone cells.Therefore if the cones are not being stimulated how do we perceive the blueness?"Pattanaik, University of Central Florida.This would create an illusion of blue."Unfortunately," they point out, "direct physiological evidence to support or negate the hypothesis is not yet available."So there are still some mysteries in the moonlight.In The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, an anthology by Alvin Redman, we find a fascinating example of the rarefied heights that his conversation could reach.The title of this post is of course another fine example of Wilde's wit."Few remain of those who heard his talk, but his many biographers are unanimous in acclaiming Wilde as the supreme conversationalist.Facts spread before her like frightened forest things.Looking through a collection of clippings I had saved, I came across this article from 1994; it may have been from the New York Times.All she needs are little X's on her eyes and a lily between her paws, and she could become a cartoon dead cat.She is not, at these moments, thinking strategically.Actually, she is waiting for her enemies.She is uniquely sensitive to all the entrances to the room.Suppose the homeowner were to stroke the cat at that moment.Like all warriors, cats get restless in the absence of real enemies.It's the slaughter demo, a key ingredient in the strategic thinking of cats.Sometimes a cat will be taking just a little nap and suddenly a suspicious sound will arouse it.It will gaze frantically about like a police constable arriving too late at an accident."Now then, what's all this?"British accent it employs on these sad occasions.Then it will assume control.But its eyes move and its tail lashes; it is setting a trap.But soon it is time for a nap again.In addition to overcoming jet lag, it looks like Viagra can also help a hamster with its golf swing.The Igs, as they are known, are chosen by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to highlight scientific achievements that, in the words of editor Marc Abrahams, "first make people laugh and then make them think."Galles, one of the Barcelona team of scientists, of the findings.The awards, she said, "bring out the freak inside most scientists."Seven of the 10 winners this year paid their own way to accept the awards, which were handed out by six real Nobel Prize laureates.Asked why chickens were chosen as this year's theme, master of ceremonies Abrahams looked astonished and said only: "How could you not?"Some scientists have complained that the satirical awards unfairly tarnish legitimate research."Humor adds to research," he said.US scientist Dan Meyer even gulped down a short sword before thanking the whooping crowd with the hilt between his teeth.Past winners who showed up included the creator of the pink plastic flamingo, the inventor of a hiding alarm clock and a researcher who reported the first known case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck."Research highlighted by this year's awards ranged from a study of how sheets wrinkle and how the word "the" causes headaches for indexes, to why humans can't stop eating when presented with an apparently endless bowl of soup."Please stop, I'm bored."Nonetheless, Dutch scientist Johanna van Bronswijk managed to describe why she is doing a census of the mites, insects, spiders and other creatures with which humans share their bed.Also honored was a Taiwanese man who patented a device to net bank robbers, but who could not attend the ceremony because he has apparently vanished."Moto Vanilla Twist," in her honor.Yamamoto said she first learned of her award by email and thought it was a joke but decided to go to the ceremony because "I want everyone to know about my research."As if further levity were needed, the ceremony was punctuated with goofy "Moments of Science" and a contest to win a date with a Nobel laureate billed with the slogan: "He's shapely, he's sassy and he's smarter than you."Is not the past all shadow?It's not clear just how we might find out what this peaceful cat is dreaming about, but I think it is clear that cats, able to sleep just about anywhere, will never have need of such a pillow.Daryoush Bazargani, professor of computer science at the University of Rostock and the pillow's inventor, was displaying a prototype of his pillow at a health conference in Germany on Wednesday."The ergonomic pillow can also be used for neck massages.Gray's fine poem to accompany it.Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes'Twas on a lofty vase's side,Where China's gayest art had dy'dThe azure flow'rs that blow;Demurest of the tabby kind,The pensive Selima, reclin'd,Gazed on the lake below.What female heart can gold despise?Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd)The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd,She tumbled headlong in.Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyesAnd heedless hearts is lawful prize,Nor all, that glisters, gold.This is a long essay that Helen wrote last November as an email to an internet friend.There is an aspect of Buddhism and Hinduism that speaks tothe mystical truths and certainly their techniques of meditation arequite sophisticated.However,there are charlatans in Christianity, and the various sects getoverinvolved in their dogmatic arguments with one another.God's love for his creation,you understand that it is only through the love of one person to anotherthat the glory of the Creator and his love can be expressed.Then thecycle is complete.That is why we feel an existentialloneliness, I believe, even in the midst of happy company.Of course on a day to day level we cannot live this way, but we havethis realization always at the core of our being.Many people seek Islam because they find the idea of a unitary God whois like a stern master to be more understandable than a Triune God.Now, if the Church fathers were interested in making a religion thatwould appeal to all Gentiles (Christ came to bring the true spirit of the teaching of the Jewish God to all mankind), they would not have invented such a difficult concept as the Triune God.Godthat creates a plaything and then sits outside his creation is nothingmore than a little despot who builds an ant farm and watches the littleants scurrying about.Well, these are my current beliefs.So I amleft with my own deep beliefs that encompass many ideas.It's been half a year since anything new has been added, and I thought it only appropriate to start the fourth year by posting a meditative essay that she wrote a little over a year ago but never published.The beautiful illustration, of the month of September, is from an old edition of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calendar, his first major poetic work, published in 1579.DavidBy AussiegirlAs always, September has brought a sudden end to summer.September came along and rang the curtain down with cool rains and cooler temperatures.Perhaps this is why those of us who live in temperate climes tend to a more philosophical frame of mind.And it makes us aware of the passage of time, that flow that we are all on that carries us along the wave of existence, yet weaving an illusion of permanence and reality.Perhaps the Eastern philosophies are correct when they tell us that all is illusion, and current physics also leads us to contemplate such mysteries.This, however, is a subject for another time.Complete and utter corruption rules the day.Too rational and intellectual, while at the same time emotionally committed to retreat and pacification and appeasement.Sometimes I think that there are certain racial tribes or types in this world that have by their history and genetic selection become adapted to a more warlike makeup.West have over the centuries of civilization bred aggression out of their genes.The genes that contributed to success in our Western culture were genes that favored intellectual achievement and high intelligence, a cooperative nature to enable someone to work in and participate in a complex industrial and technological culture.Happy birthday, Fryderyk, may your music live forever!Helen has written elsewhere about her beloved musical pantheon that included, in addition to Chopin, only Beethoven and Verdi.Here I have gathered four interesting and perceptive observations about Chopin.Even in energetic passages he scarcely ever exceeded an ordinary mezzoforte.He took infinite pains to teach his pupils this legato, cantabile style of playing.He also demanded the strictest adherence to rhythm.He hated all lingering and dragging, misplaced rubatos, as well as exaggerated ritardandos ...His music conquers the most diverse audiences.When the first notes of Chopin sound through the concert hall there is a happy sigh of recognition.Yet it is not "Romantic music" in the Byronic sense.It does not tell stories or paint pictures.It is expressive and personal, but still a pure art.He divined the soul of the instrument, and his every phrase, technical pattern, and ornament sounds inevitably proper to the chosen medium.Chopin came and departed like a comet from remote space.This is a review that Helen wrote for Amazon.Ukrainian immigrant experience, July 10, 2006 Reviewer: Aussiegirl In the introduction to this collection of short historical fiction, memoirs, and poems touching upon a century of the history of Ukrainian immigrant experience, Marsha Skrypuch writes the following: "When you don't write your own stories, others will write them for you."And in publishing this marvelous collection of stories she begins the process of putting the record straight."That's the same as Russian, isn't it?"As Marsha explains in the foreword, the kobzars were Ukraine's wandering blind minstrels, who in the ancient tradition of Homer memorized long epic historical poems that spoke of the great events of Ukrainian history, and in doing so kept a population that was largely illiterate in touch with their great heritage.During Stalin's times, in addition to their traditional role they kept people apprised of the repressions and persecutions and famine, and so they came to the notice of Josef Stalin, who called for a national conference of kobzars.Hundreds showed up, and all were shot.Because Marsha does not speak Ukrainian, she did not have access to the emigre literature that spoke of the immigrant experience, and of experiences in Ukraine.Although this book is suitable for all ages capable of reading at this level, it is of no less interest to the adult reader as to the young reader.It never talks down to its audience.In the same way that I remember my own parents relating the many stories of our family, no punches are pulled.Harsh reality and horror and danger take their place alongside tales of humor, childhood pranks, and misunderstandings.Ukrainian famine genocide of 1933, in which at least seven million Ukrainians perished.Tales of helping out in a family grocery store take their place alongside a psychologically insightful meditation on the interior life of an elderly Ukrainian woman living in her memories while confined to a nursing home.This is a chapter of immigrant history I knew absolutely nothing about.Perhaps this is why Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian descent are generally highly sensitive to any encroachments upon their freedoms and dangers gathering in the world.As such, Marsha Skrypuch has done a great service by publishing this book.History comes alive when we read about the lives of individuals.We are all enriched by enlarging our knowledge of history and the very human stories that make up that history.Every country needs its kobzars.In April 2003 Helen sent this email to her internet friend veritas about the Requiem that she loved so much.Half of the email are quotes from George Martin's book, but the quotes only strengthen her own ideas about this magnificent work.Half a year later she attended a performance at Kennedy Center, and her impressions and thoughts about that performance I have already posted below."Free me, oh Lord, from eternal death, on that terrifying day."This has the effect of changing the emotional impact of the Requiem intypical Verdian fashion.Free me, oh Lord,from death, on that terrible day...""Libera me, libera me, libera me...."God andestablish some sort of relationship with him.Verdi, onthe other hand, emphasized the Salva Me which, with the constantlyrecurring Dies Irae, make the poem of an individual's terror on the dayof judgment.It is as though an angry God had come down in theHolocaust and, standing on the altar, was pointing a fiery finger at"you, you, and you: damned"; while of the people some pressed forward,others knelt where they were, and all called out to Jesus: "Salva Me!"Verdi's final section plunges the singers and audience back intothe personal drama as though someone had said the wrong thing and Godhad suddenly reappeared.But magic, even in agroup, does not answer an individual's fears.One by one they fallsilent, drop their neighbor's hand and peer out into the night, alone."Libera me", the soprano pleads alone, "Free me, Lord, from eternaldeath on that awful day."The audience, whether it intellectually wants to or not, becomesemotionally involved in the sheer rush of sound in the final fugue and,like the chorus and soloists, asks for some sort of emotional release.This Verdi, also quite deliberately, refuses to give it."No church gives such an answer; they all offer some happy solution tothe quest for assurance that life and life after death have certaintyand meaning.In not offering a clearsolution Verdi reflected the increasing uncertainty of the end of thenineteenth century when Darwin and the new science were shakingtraditional beliefs.And Verdi, who anyway had never held them, was fartoo honest an artist to fake an ending that he did not himself feel.....Verdiland at least as much as I enjoyed musing on it.It's not that they can't be mixed, but, according to the following article, they shouldn't be.She never saw this report, but I think she would have wanted me to post it.Researchers Find Milk Blocks Antioxidants In TeaResearchers Find Milk Blocks Antioxidants In TeaDr."My mom and grandmother did it so I did it.Researchers were trying to figure out why England has more heart disease than Germany, France, or Asia where nearly everyone drinks tea without milk.Tea contains antioxidants called catechins and polyphenols which cause the blood vessels of the body to relax.The milk drinkers did in fact have blood vessels that stayed stiff and rigid."That makes you wonder if milk also may block other heart protective effects and cancer fighting substances normally found in tea," said CBS4's Dr.Coffee also has catechins and polyphenols that are found in tea.MMVII CBS Television Stations, Inc.American, fortunate enough to have been admitted to this great land as an immigrant.My personal history is the spur for this blog.My parents lived through the Ukrainian Genocidal Famine of 1933, survived years of Communist persecution, fled to the West, endured forced labor in Nazi Germany, and following liberation, ended up in Allied internment camps fighting forced repatriation to the Soviet Union under the Yalta Agreement.My parents did not save me from Communism and Nazism for me to go gently into dhimmitude or slavery.Hence my passion and my mission to expose threats to freedom and democracy wherever they are found.This blog is a testament to their courage and my small gift to their heroism.ADDENDUM***
Aussiegirl, my wife, Helen, passed away on January 13, 2007.Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy be...Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And a...The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, S...Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer...Hamsters on Viagra take center stage at Ig Nobel a...This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.Are You an Author or Publisher?See all 7 customer reviews...Ships from and sold by Amazon.Day Shipping at checkout.McCombs lives and has worked as a guide.McCombs goes back maybe too often to his key words: "silence," "light" and "night."But the compellingly eccentric word choices and odd history and geography come together often enough to make this the finest Yale Poets selection in years.From Library Journal
It's always interesting to see what will be chosen next for the renowned "Yale Series of Younger Poets," and last year's choice proved particularly strong: it went on to become a National Book Critics Circle finalist.The title, which hints metaphorically at the mythic cold north, is also the name of an inaccessible passage in Kentucky's Monmouth Caves, where McCombs worked as a ranger.See all 7 customer reviews...Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?The easiest way to shoot video reviews.Recently I spent an extended vacation exploring Mammoth Cave National Park.It has a grandeur and a haunting quality.I'm not a huge fan of "narrative" poems.The language and, God help us, rhymes are more torture in such cases than poetry.More powerful than his narrative skills is McCombs's spareness of language.He also does it without having to resort to Ashbery's often droning, lengthy verbosity.My favorite thing about Ultima Thule is the sense of camraderie in McCombs's poetry.We journey into candlelit depths and to solitary gravesites.The sense of brotherhood in these poems rivals the best of Whitman and Baudelaire.They are some of the greatest who ever lived.With Ultima Thule Davis McCombs joins their number."Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Was this review helpful to you?But fame,like the fire in the hearth, must be fed:a bundle of twigs soon needs a log to stayalight.And then full thirty cords of oak.There is irony in McCombs music.Davis McCombs took the same job.Was this review helpful to you?See all 7 customer reviews...Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and the world above it are so fundamental to the narrator's voice and the poet's...Published on September 18, 2000 by Timothy J.It seems to me that Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule has something particularly and refreshingly American about it.For all of you who were disappointed in Merwin's pick for the Yale last year (and I must include myself in that category), I say give this one a chance.See all 7 customer reviews...Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.Improve as a Playwright: A guide by Kevin L.Poetry
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