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Originally Posted by demonsss
A collection of literary short stories by Australian literary author now almost entirely forgotten, Vance Palmer: The Rainbow Bird and other stories. Forgettable, except for one unforgettably bad simile: "A cold wind ran down the street like a yellow dog." (That's the only thing I can recall of any of his writing).
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I REALLY like that "yellow dog" line. I'm gonna try to figure out a way to use it, except I might change it to 'Blue Dog', or maybe a 'loping llama'. I like words with two L's
I had to MEMORIZE the introduction to Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. I still remember pieces of it 50 years later. We also had to memorize Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. (I lived in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln is a secular saint here)
For Dama:
Inherit the Wind
Spoon River Anthology (Again, a Springfield/Petersburg/Central Illinois connection)
Books:
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens - Great Expectations
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Shakespeare - Macbeth
Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet
Hemingway - The Old Man & the Sea
Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Poetry:
Vachel Lindsay - Congo
Vachel Lindsay - Lincoln Walks At Midnight
Carl Sandburg - Lots of his poems, but I can't remember a single one
Umm - other poems that have had no effect on my life.
In American History class, we had to read Sandburg's Lincoln Biographies
Looking Back I see clearly how much reading we had to do of Authors with connections to Illinois, and the Closer to Springfield the connection was, the better. I'm quite certain that it was unfortunate that Shakespeare never visited Springfield, his writing would have improved considerably if he had.