#~ic: tiki's diary

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To Everyone I Know, With Love From Tiki <3

The blank page of the reflective assignment stared back at her, unmoving and not even a speck of ink nor paint coloured the canvas before her. Tiki continued to stare at the blank parchment with a scrunched face, swinging her legs back and forth in attempts to help rack her brain. The white paper taunted her and the little manakete threw herself into the soft plush bed behind her desk. “It's not fair!” She wailed into her pillow, stuffing her face into the soft covers and rolling around and around on her bed before pulling the pillow down, away from her face, still on the bed as she stared at the ceiling with shiny jade eyes. “I can’t choose just one person to write about who I appreciate.” She whined into the pillow, burying herself under the many layers of blankets on her bed. 

Holding up under the blanket fort, Tiki curled up like a petty child, refusing to leave her tiny cave until she could figure a way out of this plight. She had already been scolded for being late on the assignment, and her teachers refused to give her extra time for the assignment. The reflective essay was already submitted by all the students on the campus and she was the only one. 

The only one, who had yet to decide what to write. 

Peeking out from under the covers at her desk where the blank sheet of paper fluttered in the slight breeze that billowed through her curtains, Tiki stuck out her tongue at it, making faces at it in disdain. The winds picked up a little bit more and the paper was blown off the table, waving in the air as it landed on the small pile of varied items in the corner of her room. Pulling herself out from under the covers, Tiki crawled over to her little hoard and she picked up the paper from her precious pile. 

The many trinkets that were precariously balancing on each other fell over onto the floor, spilling over the ground with a shuffle of sounds. With a pouty huff, Tiki began to pile the trinkets back into their extremely carefully balanced pile, but as she picked up the trinkets one by one, she paused on each and every one of them. 

Her fingers ruffled through the scarf that Xane once had, but this piece was long torn off by the heat of the battle back on Archanea. “I like Xane because he taught me how to feel more free and happy. His tricks are mean sometimes but I find it funny!” She placed his scarf aside. 

A red flower sat next to Xane’s scarf and Tiki held it to her nose, enjoying the scent from the dried pressed flower. The redness reminded her of Maria. “Sis Maria is always so happy and really good at healing. She feels like I have a real little sister, so I like her too!” She placed it together with a pale purple flower. “And Miss Deirdre… she feels like Mother. Its strange but I feel like I like Miss Deirdre too.”

There were other things that she remembered collecting from the ball. A shed feather from Leanne, a dried cherry from Mae that still smelled sweet in the little glass jar she put it in. A colourful gossamer powder of blue and red from Lilith, a deep green petal that reminded her of Kurth and even the strange card she received detailing Big Brother Artur. She smiled and appreciated them all, for being her friend, for coming to her and making her smile.

There was a small card in the pile and Tiki squealed, little fingers wrapped around the card and holding it towards the ceiling light. “This one is from Professor Dark! I love Professor Dark’s class and he is so funny and strong and nice! He says the funniest things and I love it! He makes me feel happy when we play games together!” Storing the card into a tiny box, Tiki continued through her pile.

Her fingers ruffled through the items and pulled out a broken sword handle, rusted on its ends and blunt from time. “I like Kris-Mar because he was really nice to me and he looked out for me a lot! He is a bit serious but he is brave enough to protect everyone!” And she touched the worn out hilt, pressing a thumb into it and pretending to swing the sword up and down before putting it into the hoard. 

A letter from Bantu was procured next, and Tiki took her time reading through it bit by bit, running her fingers over each word that she recited in her head, as if Bantu was speaking to her right there and then in the moment. She held the letter tight to her chest, hugging it with all her might. “I love Ban-Ban for saving me from that awful nightmare. For bringing me where I wanted to go, for showing me all the places I love and want to see.” 

Without putting down the letter, Tiki held up a pegasus feather, hugging it close to her chest. “I love Big Sister Caeda for being so nice to me, for baking me sweet treats, and for helping me when I feel sad. Oh, I love Big Sister Caeda when she takes me flying on her pegasus. She feels like a real big sister that I love so much!” And finally, the famous plush doll of the Hero-King. “Mar-Mar.” And her smile returned ever so warmly to her, reaching out hugging the doll tight. “I love Mar-Mar with all my heart. For protecting me, for being there for me when I felt lonely and sad. He saved me so many times, and I can never love Mar-mar enough.” She stood up, with a giggle. “If my love for Mar-mar could be counted it would be…” She squeezed her eyes to think for a number before she squealed. “Infinite!” The blank piece of parchment paper fell to the floor, touching her feet with a subtle lightness, and then it clicked. The teachers told her to write what she appreciated about people. 

It never said to write about only one. 

Putting all her treasure hoard on her table one by one. Tiki let the warmth in her heart inspire her to pick up the ink pen once more. Her messy penmanship scribbled over the paper in an attempt to write properly for once. 

“To every one I lov with all my haart.” She began with a smile, the sun shining on the paper and her smile from the window.

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* The Road Not Taken, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Out, Out–Frost

* The Day Before the Trial– Algernon Charles Swinburne [T]

* Guenevere— Sara Teasdale [T]


* The Defense of Guenevere–William Morris [T]

Short Stories

* Stories of Your Life and Other Stories by Ted Chiang

* Wilde (The Carterville Ghost [T][A], The Model Millionaire [T][A], The Nightingale and the Rose  [T][A], The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince

* Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

* Poe (Masque of the Red Death [T][A]. Telltale Heart [T][A], Cask of Amontillado [T][A], Fall of the House if of Usher [T][A], The Purloined Letter [T][A],The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade  [T][A], Pit and the Pendulum [T][A], Mertzengerstein [T], The Duc De L’omlette [T][A], The Black Cat [T][A], The Murders of the Rue Morgue [T][A], Van Kempelen and his Discovery [T], Mesmeric Revelation [T][A]

* Hawthorne (My Kinsman Major Molineux [T][A], Young Goodman Brown [T][A],  Rappacini’s Daughter [T][A], Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment [T][A], The Snow Image [T][A], The Minister’s Black Veil [T], The Maypole of Merry Mount [T][A], The Celestial Railroad [T][A], Sister Years  [T][A], The New Adam and Eve [T][A], The Artist of the Beautiful [T][A]

* O. Henry ( Lickpenny Lover [T][A], The Gift of the Magi [T][A],After Twenty Years [T][A], The Last Leaf [T][A], The Cop and the Anthem  [T], The Clarion Call [T], The Skylight Room [T][A], The Buyer from Cactus City [T][A], The Duplicity of the Hargraves [T][A], The Furnished Room [T][A], Witches loaves [T][A], The Third Ingredient  [T][A], Spring time a la Carte  [T][A], The Green Door [T][A], By Courier, The Romance of the Busy Broker, One Thousand Dollars, Tobin’s Pal, Fourth in Salvador, A Retrieved Reformation, The enchanted kiss

* Lovecraft—(The Cats of Ultar [T][A], The Outsider [T], Beyond the wall of sleep [T][A], Hypnos [T][A], The call of Cthuthulu  [T], Dunwich horror [T][A], Dagon)

* EM Forrester (The Other side of the Hedge [T][A], The Machine Stops [T][A])

* Edith Wharton –The fullness of life [T][A]

* Collins–Mr. Lismore and the Widow [T][A]

* Bradbury—Exiles, Sound of Thunder

* Hans Christian Anderson –( In a thousand years  [T][A], Little mermaid [T][A])

* Ambrose Bierce–Occurrence at owl creek bridge[T][A]

* Connell–The most dangerous game [T]

* Thousand and One nights–Aladdin and his magic lamp [T][A]

* The necklace by Maupassant [T][A]

* Anthony Hope–The Philosophy in the Apple Orchard [T][A]

* Doyle (The Red-Headed League [T][A], Scandal in Bohemia[T][A])

* Gilman–The Yellow Wallpaper [T][A]

* Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

* The story of an hour by Kate Chopin [T][A]

* The Lottery by Shirley Jackson [T]

* Rikki-tiki-tavi by Kipling

* The ones who walk away from Omelas by Le Guin  [T]

* Bartley the Scrivener by Melville[T][A]

* The lady or the tiger by Frank Stockton [T][A]

* Abbot–Flatland[T][A]

* Afterward by Edith Wharton

* Goodbye, Mr. Chips–James Hilton

* Jericho Road by Henry van dyke [T][A]

* Heinlein– (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Magic INC.,  All you zombies, By his bootstraps, Waldo, Beyond this horizon)

* Philip K. Dick (We can remember it for you wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety, The Minority Report, The Golden Man, Variable Man, James P. Crow, Human is, The Hood Maker, War Veteran, The Hanging Stranger, The Mold of Yancy, If There Were No Cemoli, Waterspider)

* William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, The Tall Men, Shingles for the Lord, Shall not Perish, Elly, Uncle Willy, That will be Fine, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves, A Justice, A Courtship, Lo!, Ad Astra, All the Dead Pilots, Wash, Mountain Victory,  Beyond)

* Mark Twain (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County[T][A],  Diary of Adam and Eve[TT][A])

* Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow, [T][A],  The Devil and Tom Walker  [T][A])

* Gelett Burgess–The number Thirteen [A], The MacDougal street affair  [A]

* Lord Dunsany– The bureau d’exchange de Maux [T][A], The Exiles club [T][A], The Sword of Walleran  [T][A]

* The mortal immortal  by Mary Shelly [T][A]

* The Adventure of the Snowing Globe By F. Anstey[A]

* The Sleeper and Spindle by Gaiman

* I am Legend, Steel, What Dreams May Come–Richard Matheson

* Mark Helprin (Katherine comes to yellow sky, Monday, Ellis Island,  Tamar[T])

Speeches

* Blood, Sweat and Tears; Their Finest Hour, We shall fight on the beaches, Iron Curtain –Churchill

* The Third Philippic—Demosthenes

* First Inaugural, Decision to go to the moon—Kennedy

* Abolition Speech—William Wilberforce

* First Oration against Catiline—Cicero

* First Inaugural, Fifth State of the Union, 40th Anniversary D-Day, Brandenburg Gate, A Time for Choosing,Crisis of Communism—Reagan

* Funeral Oration—Pericles

* What to the slave is the fourth of July—Fredrick Douglas

* I have a dream—MLK

* Perils of Indifference—Wiesel

* “Doctrine of the International Community”, Speech to US Congress–Blair

* The Need to Expand speech—Hitler (obviously for historical purposes not because it’s good)

* Thatcher first speech as PM, ‘Orwellian nightmare’ if Tories fail, claims Margaret Thatcher

* Fire Sermon—Buddha

* Empress Theodora’s refusal to run

* Sermon on the Birds—St. Francis

* Thomas Moore on Charges of Treason

* Queen Elizabeth on the Spanish Armada

* Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God—Johnathan Edwards

* Give me Liberty or Give me Death!—Patrick Henry

* Washington to Troops on Insurrection

* Washington’s Farewell Address

* First and Second Inaugural, Gettysburg—Lincoln

* Barry Goldwater Convention Speech

* William Faulkner Nobel Speech

* Age of Liberty—George W. Bush

Short Non-Fiction

* A Letter for Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

* A Modest Proposal—Jonathan Swift [T][A]

* Self-Reliance [A][T], The American Scholar[A], Experience[A]—Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Up from Slavery[A][T], Character Building [A]—Booker T. Washington

Bored. Here are some reading suggestions.

* [T]=Link to free text at Project Gutenberg

* [A]=Link to free audio recording at Librivox.org

Young adult/children

* The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery

* Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

* Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

* The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley

* The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling [T][A]

* Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

* The Westing Game by Ellen Rasking

* Lillies of the Field by William Barrett

* Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

* The Wrinkle in Time Series(Wrinkle In Time, Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)  by Madeleine L’Engle

* The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper

* The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher

* The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

* Coraline, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

* Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

* The Original Shanara Trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong) and Landover (Magic Kingdom for Sale, SOLD!, The Black Unicorn, Wizard at Large, The Tangle Box) by Terry Brooks

* The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

* Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [A][T]

* Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

* Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter [A][T]

Literature 

* Complete works of Mark Helprin (esp. Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy & Fredericka,In Sunlight and Shadow)

* Complete works of William Shakespeare (Especially Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, sonnets) [T][A]

* The Iliad [T][A]  The Odyssey [T][A]  by Homer (I like the Fagles translation)

* Sophocles–Oedipus Trilogy , [T][A] [A][A], Philoctetes [T][A], Women of Trachis [T][A]

* Oresteia by Aeschylus  [T][A]

* Medea by Euripides [T][A]

* Les Miserables [T][A], The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo [T][A]

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [T][A]

* To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [T][A]

* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [T][A]

* Complete works of William Faulkner ( esp. The Sound and the Fury, Light in August) by Faulkner

* Howard’s End by E.M. Forster [T][A]

* Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

* The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [T][A]

* Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

* Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [T][A]

* The Portrait of Dorian Gray [T][A], The Importance of Being Earnest[T][A] , An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde[T][A]

* The Time Machine by H.G. Wells [T][A]

* A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

* Night by Elie Wiesel

* The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

* The Devil’s Disciple [T], Pygmalion [T][A], Major Barbara [T][A] by George Bernard Shaw

* A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

* Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Ronstad (unless you speak French, only the Hooker translation)

* Dracula by Bram Stoker [T][A]

* Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee

* Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas

* Silas Marner by George Eliot [T][A]

* The Decameron –Giovanni Boccaccio [T][A]

* Mystic River, Live by Night--Dennis Lehane

* The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

* The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Education

* How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler

* A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley

Philosophy

* A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren

* The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman

* Plato (Euthyphro [T][A],  Apology [T][A], Gorgias [T][A], Crito[A], Phaedo [A], Symposium [T][A], Republic [T][A])

* Aristotle (Metaphysics [T][A], Nicomachean Ethics [T][A], Eudemian Ethics [T][A], Politics [T][A], Rhetoric [T][A],  Poetics [T][A])

* A History of Philosophy Series by F. Copleston

* Discourses on Livy by Machiavelli [T]

* Ethical and Political Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas

* Aristotle for Everybody, 10 Philosophical Mistakes, The Great Ideas, by Mortimer J. Adler

* Cicero (On the Gods [T][A], On Duties [T][A], 1st and 2nd Philippics [T][A]

* Superheroes and Philosophy edited by Morris

* Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by South

* Vindication of the Rights of WomenVindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft [T][A]

History

* History of the Ancient World, Medieval World, Renaissance World, The Story of Western Science by Susan Wise Bauer

* The Forgotten Man, Coolidge by Amnity Shlaes

* History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides [T][A]

* John Adams by David McCullough

* From Dawn to Decadence by Barzun

* Plutarch’s Lives [T][A]

* Cicero, Augustus by Everitt

* Letters of John and Abigail Adams [T]

* Washington, Hamilton by Ron Chernow

* The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff

* Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr

* Reagan’s War by Peter Schweizer

* Patriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart and Allen

* The Closing of the Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly

* The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

* 1775 by Kevin Phillips

* Empire of Libery, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood

* The Last Lion by William Manchester and Paul Reid

* The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

* Coming Apart by Charles Murray

* Occult America by Mitch Horowitz

Economics/Politics

* Who Really Cares, The Conservative Heart.  and The Road to Freedom by Arthur Brooks

* The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

* Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry

* Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville  [T][A]

* The Law by Bastiat [T][A]

* The Upside of Down by McArdle

* Spirit of the Laws [T][A]

* The Federalist Papers [T][A]

* Adam Smith (Theory of Moral Development [T][A], Wealth of Nations [T][A])

* Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration–Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith 


* My Journey by Tony Blair

* The Conscience of a Conservative Barry Goldwater

* Second Treatise of Government [T][A], A Letter Concerning Tolerance [T][A] by John Locke

* Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich, On Wealth, Peace Kills by O’Rourke

* In Defense of Globalization by Bhagwati

* Novus Ordo Seclorum by McDonald

* Basic Economics, Civil Rights by Sowell

* The Next 100 Years by Friedman

* The Mystery of Capital by de Soto

* The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

* Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose by Friedman

* New Threats To Freedom edited by Bellow

* A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France [T][A] by Burke

* The General Theory by Keynes

* The Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Decay by Fukuyama

* Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Equality, Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre McCloskey

* Capital by Marx [T][A]

* The Conservative Mind by Russel Kirk

* Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler

Other nonfiction

* Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

* The Universe in a Nutshell by Hawking

* Freakanomics. Super Freakanomics, Think Like a Freak, When to Rob a Bank by Levitt & Dubner

* The Art of War by Sun Tzu

* Scratch Beginnings by Shepard

* The Tao of Physics by Capra

* Shadowplay by Asquith

* Human Excellence., In Our Hands by Murray

* The Better Angels of Our Nature by Pinker

* 48 Laws of Power by Greene

* Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson

Pleasure reading

* Man in the High Castle by Dick

* Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by Forester

* The Road to Gandolfo, Bourne Trilogy by Robrt Ludlum

* Big Trouble by Dave Barry

* Eaters of the Dead, State of Fear by Michael Crichton

* Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, Sum of All Fears, Executive Orders by Tom Clancy

* I, Claudius by Graves

* The Walking Drum by L’Amour

* The Alienist by Caleb Carr

* A Study in Scarlet Women (and other Lady Sherlock novel) by Sherry Thomas

* Gates of Fire by Pressfield

* The Scarlet Pimpernel by Ozcry [T][A]

* It, The Stand, The Green Mile by Stephen King

* The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

* Pillars of the Earth, Column of Fire by Ken Follett

* The Historian by Kostova

* Grail Quest, The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwall

* The Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield

* Lamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Vampire Trilogy, The Stupidest Angel, and Fool by Christopher Moore

* Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope [T][A]

* Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

* Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose

* The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

* The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston

Sci fi/Fantasy 

* Mists of Avalon, The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley

* Eye of the World and all of the The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (et. al)

* Dune Series by Frank Herbert (et. al)

* The Sword of Truth Series (stop at Confessor) by Terry Goodkind

* Stranger in a Strange Land, Puppet Master, Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Beyond this Horizon, and Double Star by Robert Heinlein

* Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett

* The Princess Bride by William Golding

* Watership Down by Adams

* Rhapsody (and the whole Symphony of Ages series)  by Elizabeth Haydon

* Ender’s Game, Enchantment by Card

* The Last Wish, The Sword of Destiny (Witcher Series) by Andrezej Saplowski

* American Gods, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

* Anthem, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

* Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

* 1984 by George Orwell

* 2001–Clarke

* World War Z by Brooks

* The Emperor’s Soul, A Perfect State, Legion, Elantris, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

* The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester

* The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Spiritual 

* The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

* Lost Horizon by Hilton

* God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita by Yogananada

* The Second Coming of Christ by Yogananda

* The Tao Te Ching (best to read at least two translations)

* The Alchemist, Veronica Decides to Die, Warrior of Light, Brida, The Pilgrimage by Coelho

* Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda

* Evidence of the Afterlife by Long

* A Course in Miracles

* The Messengers by Ingram

* The Celestine Prophecy by Redfield

* Life before Life by Tucker

* Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by Bach

* Siddhartha by Hesse

* Koran

* The Book of Certitude

* Holy Bible

* Book of Mormon

* The Miracle Club by Mitch Horowitz

* The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

* As a Man Thinketh, Eight Pillars of Porsperity by James Allen

* Varieties of Religious Experience by William James [T][A]

Poetry

* The Prophet [T], The Broken Wings, Song of Man by Gibran

* Leaves of Grass by Whitman [T] (esp. Preface, Song of Myself, I hear America Singing, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, O Me! O Life!, O Captain! My Captain! Life and Death, America, Thoughts,Years of the Modern,, As the Time Draws Nigh, Whispers of Heavenly, By Blue  Ontario’s Shore, The Centenarian’s Story, Beat! Beat! Drums! To a President, Song of the Broad Axe 5, Song of the Open Road 5, Salut au Monde! 11,To the East and to the West, I Dream’d in a Dream, When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame, Startin from Paumanok 5 6 12 16 17, To the States, For Him I Sing, To Thee Old Cause, To Foreign Lands, One’s-Self I Sing)

* Works of Tennyson (especially The Lady of Shallot, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade, For I dipped into the Future, In Memoriam A.H.H., Crossing the Bar, Ulysses[T][A])

* Works of T.S. Eliot (especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland, Hollow Men, Preludes-, Four Quartets)

* Divine Comedy by Dante (I like the Mandelbaum translation) [T][A]

* Metamorphoses by Ovid [T][A]

* Hesperides and Nobel Numbers by Herrick [T] (esp. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Argument of his book, Delight in Disorder, To His Conscience, Upon Julia’s Clothes, Corinna’s Going A-Maying,

* Faust by Goethe Part I [T][A] Part II [T][A]

* Works of Sappho, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Tu Fu (best to read several translations)

* Tagore (esp. Gitanjali), The Hero

* Spencer– Amoretti(Sonnets 1,8, 10, 35, 37, 67,68, 70,75, 79)

* Sidney —Astrophil & Stella (Sonnets 1,6,9,15, 31,39,45,52,69,71,72,87,89,108)

* The Passionate Shepherd to His Love—Marlowe

* The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—Raleigh

* Shakespeare’s Sonnets (all them)

* Meditation 17, Holy Sonnet 10, The Bait—Donne

* To a Mouse, To a Louse, Auld Lang Syne. A Red Red Rose–Burns

* The Lamb, The Tyger—Blake

* Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan—Coleridge

* She Walks in Beauty Like the Night, When We Two Parted, Darkness, We’ll Go No More A Roving, When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home—Byron

* A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing—Pope

* The Measure of a Man—Unknown

* Invictus–Henley

* Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi—Unknown (but probably not St. Francis)

* Ozymandias, The Flight of Love, To—, —Shelly

* Ode on a Grecian Urn,La Belle Dame Sans Merci—Keats

* Sea Fever–Masefield

* My Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister—Browning

* Sonnet 43—Barret Browning

* Remember,Up-hill, Echo,Promises like Pie-Crust, Lord thou thyself art love,—C.G. Rossetti

* Sudden Light, The House of Life,Soul’s Beauty—D.G. Rossetti

* The New Colossus–Lazarus

* Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, When you are Old, Lake Island of Inishfree—Yeats

* Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night—Thomas

* Work—Angela Morgan

* The Keeping of the Bridge–Lord Macaulay

* The Highwayman–Noyes

* Casey at Bat—Thayer

* Jabberwocky, Walrus and the Carpenter, The Hunting of the Snark–Carroll

* Dream Deferred, I too sing America– Hughes

[racingtoaredlight]

Booze Ramadan Diary 2018

Day 1

I found a new, cool bar that serves $5 cocktails on tap that I won’t being going to for a long time.

Day 2

I worked from home and took edibles, watched El Chapo, those guys were drinking the whole damn time.

Day 3

I fantasized about crashing a plane into the CN Tower.

Day 4

Two drinking buddy co-workers berate me for taking time off drinking, they are not wrong. At lunch I go to a Irish Pub and start sweating. Ordered a Ginger Ale. Booze is free at 3pm at work today, I am pounding water. There is a Texas Mickey that is unguarded and available at all times, that bottle incessantly taunts me.

Day 7

I went to a local book store, that is the entire story of my weekend.

Day 9 I swear while brushing my teeth this morning the toothpaste tasted of falernum. 

Day Something?

I can no longer delineate dates, all days are the same. Before there was a rhythm to my life. Monday and Tuesday I felt awful, Wednesday I assume is how normal people feel. Thursday I would be primed, Friday hungover and little wiser but ready to drink at lunch. Saturday was a bacchanalia and Sunday an echo of Saturday. Sober now there is just drudgery, I feel the same each day and each day is the same. Every morning I wake up in the place I intended knowing the location of my wallet. There are no clues to find, there are no hints of a secret life found in bank statements and my phone camera. Everything is perfectly in place, there are no adventures or mysteries there is just the deliberate march of time moving forwards orderly in identical increments.

Day 15

I broke a water glass at my desk at work. The co-worker who sits next to me quipped, “you weren’t clumsy when you were drinking.” She is right.

Day 16

I bought and consumed an entire bag of wine gums.

Day 17  Friday is the cruelest month. Ginger Ale again at the Irish Pub.  Day 18 I skipped two parties and two groups visiting the Tiki Bar. 

Day 19 I took shrooms all day, it was fun. You need to vacation from your own consciousness one way or other. Ideally a fun way. Shrooms are super fun but it was very difficult to not pour myself a gigantic glass of rum while coming down to enjoy the sensation. 

Day 20 

Why? 

Day 21

I accidentally posted a tweet from the company account telling quite a few of Toronto’s politicians and businesses to go fuck themselves for being ignorant morons. 4 people in the company noticed, a drinking buddy here was able to help undo everything and I escaped being reprimanded. 

Day Booze Eid al-Fitr

I have been making ice all month in preparation. Booze has been stockpiled, I did laundry. Essentially my teetotaler self is a millennial to my drunken baby boomer, the baby boomer consumes all the resources the millennial provides while smirking in a superior fashion looking down upon their benefactor for being so pitiful, so easily abused and so buttoned up. 

The amount of money I saved is basically all my money. There is almost zero spending without booze. I easily paid $2200 for a destination wedding I have been summed to this April (screams into pillow). I think I am spending roughly $350 a week on drinking which seems high. 

My first drink back will be a Dark N Stormy at this Bangarang Bar for a work event. The second will be a Mezcal Margarita. A normal person would be concerned about at open bar work party with a drastically reduced tolerance but I am not. Today feels like my own St. Patrick’s Day, I woke up this morning hopeful for the future for the first time this year. 

Cheers. 

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[dreamingdragonscion]

For the Sake of the Party

Whispers oozing with excitement echoed and floated around the halls in a haunting linger, their words barely contained their enthusiasm for the upcoming ‘ball’. The little manakete’s heart fluttered at the thought that everyone was looking forward to the ‘party’. 

It was a party right? The little manakete tilted her head in recollection of what Big Sister Caeda had mentioned to her earlier. The ‘Ball’ was a fun party to make friends at. The rumours about dancing and finding ‘dates’ were all words that Tiki didn’t understand, but maybe this academy treated parties differently. 

That had to be it! Dancing must be how they get together and play games, Tiki did indeed recall Bantu playing with her by dancing in small circles around flower fields. And ‘finding dates’ probably meant finding those new friends to dance with! Tiki’s smile widened as she settled on that explanation (she was wrong, but no one was going to correct her) and raced back to her own room. 

She wanted to make more friends and if this party was the best way to make friends, she was going to need to follow the instructions on the invitation. The small paper lay crumpled and slightly wrinkled on her table as Tiki sat at it, rummaging through her bags and picking out a small kit of cloth and needles. “I may not be as good as Ban-Ban but Ban-Ban taught me all I needed to know! I will do my best to ‘dress up’ to make new friends!” The oil lamp burned brightly next to her as threads and cloths lay strewn all over her desk as she slowly worked at the textiles, recalling what Bantu told her bit by bit as she sewed her own ‘dress’. 

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She had just enough time to finish her project when the day of the ball came, there was no deadline but Tiki had never been happier that she finished sewing in time. “Ban-Ban probably would do a better job than this but Ban-Ban would be proud of what I learned!” She giggled to herself as she hugged her dress to herself. 

The bells tolled loudly outside and Tiki let out a small squeak, rushing to put on her dress, slipping comfortably into her dress as she spun around with a smile. It fit her like a charm and she giggled at the prospect. Fumbling with her satchel, she pulled it over her shoulder and dusted herself down before puffing her chest up in pride. 

Unable to contain her excitement, Tiki rushed out of her room, ignoring the looks and gasps from everyone around her as she raced through the winding halls of the academy, ready to make friends with everyone. 

This was a party to make friends after all! How else would you make friends if you didn’t look cute and approachable? She giggled as she burst onto the scene in the best outfit she could think of. 

A Big Yellow Fluffy Dragon Onesie!

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