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Canto or Won’t-o?

There is no more certain kiss of death than the New Year’s Resolution, is there? You hang that fresh calendar on the wall and envision the New You in the New Year. Yeah, right. Three weeks later… more →

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Canto or Won't-o? — 5 comments

polloplayer wrote 1 year ago: There is no more certain kiss of death than the New Year’s Resolution, is there? You hang that … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, divine comedy, Dante's Inferno, Literature, Mandelbaum Dante's Inferno, Charles Eliot Norton Dante's Inferno, Hollander Dante's Inferno, Botticelli illustrations Dante's Inferno, Thomas Bergin Leonard Baskin Dante's Inferno

Happily Back in Hell: a literary mash-up of Dante, St. John of the Cross and Robert Frost — 4 comments

polloplayer wrote 1 year ago: This may be a yawner for faithful readers, but every day I get at least a few hits on Polloplayer fr … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Belgian Mille Fleur d'Uccle hen, Dante's Inferno, Charles Eliot Norton limited edition Inferno 1955 Botic, Dante's Inferno Mandelbaum translation, Dante's Inferno Hollander translation, Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross, Robert Frost - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

How I Read Myself through 2011: Part Two — 4 comments

polloplayer wrote 1 year ago: If you’re making New Year’s Resolutions, you might consider resolving to keep a book lis … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Dante Alighieri Paradiso, F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited, The Ambassadors Henry James, The Sojourn Andrew Krivak, Book List, Reading Recommendations, Tricking Freya Christna Sunley, In the Garden of Beasts Erik Larson

Everything in Immoderation: Art and Eating in Paris — 8 comments

polloplayer wrote 1 year ago: So many museums and cafes, so little time! We had a week’s worth of “must-do’s … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Big Fun, Gastronomy, Travel, Musee d'Orsay, Churchill statue Paris, Ferme Saint-Simon, Dante and Virgil

I have entered the Empyrean... — 3 comments

polloplayer wrote 1 year ago: Midway in the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood… Yes, I can now truly say t … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Dante's Paradiso, Dante's Purgatorio, divine comedy, Mnemosyne Books, Robert and Jean Hollander, Robert P. Baird

My life is an open book. — 9 comments

polloplayer wrote 2 years ago: I’ve always thought that reading is the most affordable form of travel. Open a book and  you c … more →

Tags: Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Dante, Books, "The Looming Tower", Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Home, Anna Karenina, divine comedy

Hither and thither. — 4 comments

polloplayer wrote 3 years ago: Home from NYC, briefly. Leaving again tomorrow for LA, where daughter, Angela, is participating in h … more →

Tags: All Things Poultry, All Things Family, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Travel, Chickens, buff orpington, easter egger, Dante, light brahma

In Purgatory.

polloplayer wrote 3 years ago: I cannot seem to get through Dante’s Purgatorio. Seven more Cantos loom, not to mention the qu … more →

Tags: All Things Poultry, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Chickens, buff orpington, easter egger, Dante, Purgatory, light brahma, autumn

And I know it's not Christmas... — 1 comment

polloplayer wrote 3 years ago: But after that last picture, you need something pretty to look at. Here’s a photo of the afore … more →

Tags: All Things Poultry, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Spoiled pets, Chickens, karma, Dante, Backyard chickens, purgatorio, Rhodesian Ridgeback

We're ba-a-a-a-c-k! — 1 comment

polloplayer wrote 3 years ago: Whew. That’s a long day: driving from Amagansett to JFK, flying across the country, waiting fo … more →

Tags: All Things Poultry, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Travel, Chickens, mel gibson, Henry VIII, Dante, Taylor, divine comedy


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