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Poet - Johnnie Douglas-Pennant

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:55:57 GMT

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Despite suffering from dyspraxia, poetry was helping Johnnie Douglas-Pennant to cope with his sister's death from cystic fibrosis. Then he died in a tragic accident, his mother tells Cassandra Jardine

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"He didn't read poetry," his mother says, "but he wrote the most wonderful poems. He used to give them to people as presents. Sometimes he would do several versions, and make drawings to go with them."

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With his poems, letters and illustrations interleaved with memories from those who loved him, Johnnie emerges as a child with rare powers of observation, an affinity with nature and an emotional maturity beyond his years. Many of his poems show him struggling to come to terms with the loss of his sister, but their universal resonance comes from his gift for condensing feelings into words and images.

Aged eight, he memorably described white as "the colour of falling"

The poignancy of his thoughts is all the more touching when read in his childish handwriting, complete with atrocious spelling

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Squashed Philosphers

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:31:55 GMT

clipped by: Tahnie
clipper's remarks: information

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Glyn Hughes'
SQUASHED PHILOSOPHERS
THE books which defined the way The West thinks now...
In their own words... but condensed and abridged into something like readable

Words Without Borders

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:16:30 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: A chance to read English translations of authors from around the world.

Intriguing methinks.

Clip Source: www.wordswithoutborders.org

January 2008

Vice and virtue clash daily round the world, and while the definition of sin may vary, its literary allure is universal. Perhaps that’s because no matter how easy we think moral failings are to finger, in actuality their elusiveness on the page is what makes for the stuff of great literature. “It’s so easy to forget . . . ” says a former student of an envious teacher; yet do moral failings arise because it’s easy to forget, or because it’s even easier to harbor and remember? Maya Arad, Roberto Bolaño, Lars Saabye Christensen, Doris Kareva, Danilo Kiš , Mathieu Lindon, Sérgio Rodrigues, Kjell Westo, and Yan Lianke put envy, greed, pride, sloth, gluttony, anger, and lust to thought-provoking ends for the New Year.

NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF

This month, there's solace in words at Dorothea Dieckmann's Guantanamo, allusions fill Aharon Megged's The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump and Eastern Europe writhes under capitalism in Andrzej Stasiuk's Nine.

Fun With Words

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:38:04 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

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Contronyms

A synonym is a word that means the same as another. "Necessary" and "required" are synonyms. An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another. "Wet" and "dry" are antonyms. While synonyms and antonyms are not in themselves interesting, the complexities and irregularities of the English language sometimes make synonyms and antonyms interesting to explore. Many complexities result from words having multiple definitions. A trivial example is a word with synonyms that aren't synonyms of each other, the word "beam," for example, having the synonyms "bar" and "shine." Similarly, some words have antonyms that are neither synonyms nor antonyms of each other but completely unrelated: the word "right," for example, having the antonyms "wrong" and "left."

The etymology and history of our first names

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:52:50 GMT

clipped by: astronkyttaron
clipper's remarks: I wonder if my parents knew any of this :--)

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the etymology and history of first names

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