Another fine Rhode Island author to meet. I appreciate Kenneth Vaughan's approach to writing. Short stories will always be my favorite form of fiction as a reader and writer. See what Kenneth has to iffer at the ARIA book expo.
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The True Meaning of Motherhood
One more re-blog before the day is done. This one by my friend Jen Basile. Her words touch the mother in my heart, and put words to the ultimate expression of love. And the girl can write! Enjoy.
Nov 2 – Meet RI Author Anita Greene
I'm excited to introduce you to Anita Greene, another wonderful Rhode Island author who will be at our ARIA Expo on December 5th. One of the great pleasures of sharing these blog posts from Martha Reynolds is that I get to sample each author's style. I love the integrity that both Anita and Tabitha have …
Goodbye Georgette, Hello Kanye
Voices around me, and those inside my head, have been giving me a hard time lately. I keep hearing that I’m too nice, a pushover, that it’s pure comedy to watch me attempt to be stern, and a lot more little jewels that have been pounding on my brain like driving rain on a garbage …
Five Fascinating Facts about ‘Jabberwocky’
I know, two Interesting Literature posts in one week.
What can I say? This blog is just so much better than mine!
So beware jaws that bite and the claws the clutch – and if you’d like to recite, hereyago –
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while in thought.And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe
Interesting facts about the classic nonsense poem, ‘Jabberwocky’
1. The poem ‘Jabberwocky’ gave us a number of new words which are now in pretty common use. The most famous of these is ‘chortle’, a kind of laugh that is a blend of a ‘chuckle’ and a ‘snort’. But the poem – which was written, of course, by Lewis Carroll – also gave us the word ‘galumph’ (to walk clumsily and noisily) and ‘slithy’, in the sense of ‘lithe and slimy’. ‘Jabberwocky’ may also have influenced our modern use of the word ‘mimsy’, though this remains difficult to determine (‘mimsy’ already existed with a similar meaning, though Carroll’s poem probably helped to popularise it).
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Meet Rhode Island Authors at the Scituate Arts Festival – Columbus Day Weekend
Come and visit at the Scituate Art Festival, Village Green - Route 116 in No. Scituate, RI this Columbus Day Weekend! The Association of Rhode Island Authors (ARIA) will have its own Authors Row where many local authors will be selling and signing. Books make great gifts and many of our authors will also be …
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