THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS ANYWAY

And our own paradoxical commandments:

 If people lie, forgive them anyway.

If you have a dream, do it anyway.

 
If someone hurts you, carry on anyway.

If people tell you that you can’t do something, do it anyway.

People will stop you from achieving your goals. Do it anyway.

Do not believe in what other people say. Do it anyway.

WHY DO WE NEED POETRY? LOVE POEMS

WHAT WILL YOUR VERSE BE? (Dead Poets Society, 1989)

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden (Four weddings and a funeral, 1994)

You left me, Emily Dickinson.

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THIS COURSE'S READING: BRAT FARRAR

Brat Farrar is a 1949 crime novel written by Josephine Tey.  The story centres around the Ashbys, an English country-squire family. Their centuries-old family estate is Latchetts, in the fictional village of Clare near the south coast of England. It takes place in the 1940s, after World War II. The title character, Brat Farrar, is a young man recently returned to England from America. He was a foundling. At the age of 13, the orphanage placed him in an office job, but he ran away instead. He ended up in the western US, where he worked at ranches and stables for several years, and became an expert horseman until a fall injured his leg and he was left with a limp

NOBEL PRIZE HAS STOPPED KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCKING ON BOB DYLAN'S DOOR

Days after he was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature the Academy said it's given up on trying to reach the American musician. Dylan still hasn't been bothered to acknowledge he won one of the most prestigious awards on the planet.

'Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received friendly replies. For now, that's certainly enough', says Sara Danius,  permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

Bob Dylan has been silent since he was made a Nobel Laureate. He even opted to say nothing during a Las Vegas concert on the same day the prize announcement was made.

Every December 10, Nobel prize winners are invited to Stockholm to receive their awards from King Carl Gustaf XVI and to give a speech during a banquet. Do you think Bob Dylan is going to show up? We can't predict what the American  singer and songwriter is going to do, but we can discuss whether he deserves the award or not.