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Here's a precursor to John Blase's logic that God is blue:
If God is Love (as the Bible says)
and Love is Blue (as the song says)
then the law of transitivity leads me to
at least consider the possibility that
God is Blue (as I’ve long hunched).
—"In Praise of Blue," 2020
From The Gateway, Feb. 20, 1969.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
July 5, 2020 |
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"To know the Moon as few men may, one must be just a little fey; and for our friendship's sake I'm glad that I am just a trifle mad." From The Complete Poems of Robert Service, 1945.
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator –
June 8, 2020 |
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Chris Piuma, rapier sharpened by a battery of Latin examinations, offers today's Tic Tac Toe-generated story.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
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alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or
O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words.
Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the
grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.
Click here for a printable template. Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration! |
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Yearbook Weirdness –
February 17, 2020 |
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"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded." —Gertude Stein
"Colors seen by candle-light will not look the same by day." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Never think she loves him wholly, never believe her love is blind, all his faults are locked securely in a closet of her mind." —Sara Teasdale
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1958 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 23, 2019 |
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Images Moving Through Time –
October 1, 2019 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
August 2, 2019 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
June 29, 2019 |
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator –
June 9, 2019 |
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Using our Tic-Tac-Toe Story Generator [instructions and template here], we can translate the game on this student's back into a poem: A wish for experimental kisses,
unknowable surprises,
the sun mysterious, shadowing.
(Photo from West Georgia's 1941 yearbook.)
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INSTRUCTIONS:
In
alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or
O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words.
Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the
grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.
Click here for a printable template. Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration! |
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Here's a precursor to Jamiroquai's marvelous lyric, "I steal the moon on silver nights" (" Automaton," 2017). Not only are silver nights and the moon mentioned in the first stanza, but in the second stanza there's "a little song." From The Ballad of the Quest by Virginia Sheard, 1922.
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