Literary Roundup part 3

Third verse same as the first-

In a hurry? Are Sparknotes just too time consuming for you? Than read all you need here at Book-A-Minute, the most condensed reading room on the net. Some greats are the entries for Dune, The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft , A Tale of Two Cities , The Collected Works of E.A. Poe and Finnegans Wake. Many of the synopses may seem cynical and overly critical of the works but it's Matt's belief and mine as well that there is no way that someone could be so precisely funny and pointed in their interpretations of these books without actually understanding and enjoying them. I guess it's all part of the fun of things.

Here's a poet I found rather interesting. His name is John Gillespie Magee, Jr. and his poem High Flight was quoted by Ronald Reagan in his speech commemorating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. ~

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Recently I read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick. I very much enjoyed it. Of all the Dick I've read I found it the most enjoyable and the least scattering of his genius. I also recently mentioned Dick's sort story "The Electric Ant" in a post and dropped that soon in the new year Marvel will be putting out a comic based on the story- expect more on this as it develops. Further more, I'm become a real Dick head it would seem; I wrote to the PKDSociety but the P.O. Box no longer exists and my letter as returned to me stamped informing me so. If your interested in become a Dick head too look here at The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Vol. 5
and start using Dickian to describe things the same way others use Dickinsian.

The Ayn Rand Corner:
The new York magazine has collected some delightful excerpts from TheAtlasphere.com, an online Ayn Rand dating community. Some of my favorites are lostpainting, thustotyrants, and Lewis who says "Really, nothing is hotter than an accomplished girl in a suit, as long as she is willing to settle down and have my children."

Also on the menu is THE ABRIDGED ATLAS SHRUGGED from SpudWorks. The story succeeds as a web-lob where it failed as a novel.

Finaly for the Tolkienists and Ringers among our readers. This is a short a sweet little reading from what I can only assume was an early version The Hobbit about Bilbo's short short and sweet... well, you know. NSFW.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

You can find the story in its entirety here.

And coming soon my review of Ezra Pound's posthumous and greatest work- Ezra Pound: Ezra Pound's Caged Wisdom.

Happy reading,
Caleb