Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[eisman]

 

[screened porch]

Funny old book:

This is the one I was thinking of:

I'm looking for something to dremel into that glue-lam handle I put on my 8" Olsen Bowie, to improve its grippines. (I don't know where my checkering set is.)

 

[pmek5]

 

[Mayonardo]

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[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[5K Qs]

I read this book a couple of weeks ago. Although I've read, re-read, and generally thoroughly enjoyed all of Sandford's Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers novels about crime-fighting cops in Minnesota, the first time I read this particular Virgil Flowers book, I had the feeling it was written as a parody of Virgil Flowers books. But maybe it's intended to be a step across the line into "the theater of the absurd." Upon re-reading it this time, it sort of reminded me of the old TV series Green Acres, with Virgil being the only "normal" character trying to deal with all the crazy characters around him.


- GT

 

[Prester John]

 

[Mayonardo]

If Keegan called it “brilliant”, it must be good. Also, “The Great War and Modern Memory” by Paul Fusell. Essential.

 

[nmcbride]

http://imgur.com/a/KZqivKb

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[screened porch]

http://imgur.com/a/KZqivKb

Interesting. They used to market body language as a way to pick up women, not fight crime.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[screened porch]

Is that the Howard Pyle book that became The Black Shield of Falworth?

 

[black mamba]

Great book and movie, the kind of stuff I was raised on! Ivanhoe is still my favorite of that genre, though.

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

Is that the Howard Pyle book that became The Black Shield of Falworth?

I expect so, I'm reading it outloud when it's her turn on Assassin's Creed Oddesy.

 

[screened porch]

Great book and movie, the kind of stuff I was raised on! Ivanhoe is still my favorite of that genre, though.

That 's a great one.

I expect so.

Which reminds me of Howard Pyle's The Garden Behind the Moon, dedicated to a child who was in the garden behind the moon, which I'm sorry to say probably means dead. It must still be around here somewhere. The book, that is.

 

[arrowhd]

 

[rckymtdave]

My pickling bible.

 

[Falling_rain]

This is the, courtesy to Wikipedia,

the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four characters apiece and grouped into four-line rhyming stanzas to make it easy to memorize. It is sung in a way similar to children learning the Latin alphabet sing an "alphabet song." Along with the Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Surnames, it formed the basis of literacy training in traditional China.

I started using public transport time (to work and back home) to memorize the piece couple of years ago, 16 characters a day, I achieved within 3 months. I should have done this some 40 years earlier.