public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags lang:en & literature

September 2006

Cynical-C Blog - » William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer

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Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.

May 2006

September 2005

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry

Hailed by Jerome Frank as “the best book that exists on the subject, today and for the foreseeable future,” Irvin D. Yalom’s The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has long been the standard text in its field. Indeed, in an earlier survey reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry, it was cited as one of the ten most influential psychiatry publications of that decade.

June 2005

Haiku on Wikipedia

Haiku is a very short poetic form: Traditional Japanese haiku consisted of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 units (morae) which generally corresponded to syllables. They also contained a special season word — the kigo — descriptive of the season in which the haiku was set.

Haiku Error Messages contest

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Clearly, we struck a nerve. Not only do you love to write haiku, but it appears that many have strong feelings about losing your work, wasting your time and rebooting. Who would have guessed?