Daily Archives: June 10, 2018

davidbrucehaiku: THOUGHTS OF A BUTTERFLY FISH

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David Bruce: William Shakespeare’s HAMLET: A Retelling in Prose — Act 3, Scene 1

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— 3.1 — In a room of the castle, King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern were meeting the following day. King Claudius asked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, “Can’t you, by having conversations with Hamlet, learn from him why … Continue reading →

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Edgar Lee Masters: Louise Smith and Herbert Marshall (Spoon River Anthology)

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LOUISE SMITH HERBERT broke our engagement of eight years When Annabelle returned to the village From the Seminary, ah me! If I had let my love for him alone It might have grown into a beautiful sorrow— Who knows? — … Continue reading →

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Lao-Tzu #63: Take care of difficult problems while they are still easy; Do easy things before they become too hard.

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63   Act by not acting; do by not doing. Enjoy the plain and simple. Find that greatness in the small. Take care of difficult problems while they are still easy; Do easy things before they become too hard.   … Continue reading →

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Aesop: The Fox Without a Tail

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It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump. At first he was ashamed to show himself among his fellow foxes. But at last he … Continue reading →

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