April Day

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.

• Proteus in Shakespeare’s
  Two Gentleman of Verona 1.3.85–8

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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”

Previously, Eliot, and also here.

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APRIL FOOL

“APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.”

Taken from:

The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The Baptists sent me a flyer, and that sent me to the Bible…

“9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.”

From The King James Version of the Bible

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A Safe House (A Stone Barrington Novel Book 61)

A Safe House

I’m reminded of a scene, from my own life, years ago. More than two decades past? In the hotel restaurant of note, in old Ft. Davis, TX, under a sign that said, I think, “Gentlemen will remove hats in the dining room,” a large lad was seated, pressed white shirt, and to impress his date, also made up, the guy had on a large, new-looking cowboy hat, cf., Taurus.

There’s a level of escapism that I turn to in a typical novel like this, but with an opening scenario that includes a feral Texas Republican senator? Too soon?

“Do you know who I am?”

(gate agent calls the cops)

With the ongoing SCOTUS discussion, as much as I would like to suggest no senator from Texas would be that mean, vile, and rapacious? Yeah, current events are eerily similar to fiction.

Thoroughly enjoyable, and even fun, to see a ugly — shockingly realistic — fiction about politics. Too bad fiction has such unlikely endings where the good guys always win, and the morally aggrieved triumph.

A Safe House

A Safe House (A Stone Barrington Novel Book 61)

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Horoscopes for 3.28.2022

News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.
Sirrah, what tidings? Have you any letters?
Shall I have justice? What says Jupiter?

Titus in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (IV.iii.78-9)

Horoscopes for 3.28.2022