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CREATIVE EXERCISES FOR LITERARY PERFORMANCE

SINGLE WOMEN: Huntsville has shy men with degrees, good cars with seat warmers, 3 bedroom/2 bath houses, space-age watches. All they lack are SINGLE WOMEN to be happy creatures. The male/female ratio for ages 25-35 is 3 to 1! What are you waiting for??

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TODAY'S TRIVIA

piano GRAND! a SMITHSONIAN celebration was released in 2000.

I added a separate page for 2004 observations. 2004 page

Last Week'S Trivial Note

65% of the peanuts produced in the USA are grown within a 100-mile radius of Dothan, AL.

About 100 varieties of ticks transmit disease to wildlife, livestock or humans. Ticks use sense organs on the front legs to detect carbon dioxide from warm-blooded animals.

In 1966, Strike King Lure Co. was established & now sells more bass spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs than anyone else in the world; of the company's 100 employees, 95 are women. Finger dexterity, baby!

"The Angel's Share" refers to a portion of TN whiskey that evaporates during the aging process.

Blowing a mallard duck decoy requires the same pucker, sucked-in cheeks & powerful exhalations as trumpet playing.

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I wondered if one's life history was the result of world-lines collapsing in response to simple force of character. --Legacy by Greg Bear

Let one hundred mothers cry, but not my mother--but better my mother than me.--old quote attributed to Arabs, Atlantic Monthly

"We didn't start the war."
"...neither did my friends in Hamburg."
"That was an English raid."
"Now you are splittng hairs with a vengeance. Tokyo was all yours. That was even worse, if there is such a thing. What do we do now, argue over degrees of terror? You think there is a hierarchy of suffering?"---Los Alamos, Joseph Kanon

"Be cool, dear student. The heart of manipulation is to emphathize without being touched." ---Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge

I saw you die, said Shadow.
In the god business, said the figure, it's not the death that matters. It's the opportunity for resurrection. ---- American Gods by Gaiman

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control..Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.---Handmaid's Tale, Atwood

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Oral HISTORY from RAILROAD workers

A POCKET FULL OF POETS

I adore upsetting brutal poetry, provided it's honest & demonstrates the contradictory impulses within human nature.


Haiku:

Dust rags are towels now
demoted to correction.
Soft shrouds for disuse.

Clearly I do not meet my own criteria for "good poet."

MZMYOPIA'S FICTION

FEB 2000 FICTION

Fiction "Verity's Murder"

Fiction: COWLICK'S QUESTION



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