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  1. Copperfox

    For Mister Kessler, Who I Hope is in Heaven

    It appears that almost all of Mister Kessler's writing which is of interest to me is in the book "LIFE IS LOVE." Now I propose to try translating, from a cold start, a poem included in the aforesaid book, without consulting a SLOVAR {=dictionary}. Note that Kessler describes "party line"...
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    For Mister Kessler, Who I Hope is in Heaven

    _Keep_ watching this space. I will soon be ready to do something here.
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    Ashplant, Out of Dry Ground

    Dang! Here I'm telling about widely separated periods in a history of acoustic Christian music. Remarkably, this parallels a real- world experience revolving around one special woman. Geralyn, already saluted by poems of mine, was in my life as a pal when my first wife Mary was living. Decades...
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    The Continued Adventures of Ilya Muromets

    CHAPTER TWO On his second morning of trekking, Ilya cut himself a suitable sapling. Durable though he was, there was something to be said for a walking stick. It would be inefficient to march with his weapons in his direct grasp; carrying the bow would hinder getting the axe into play, and...
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    The Continued Adventures of Ilya Muromets

    There are, of course, multiple versions of the tale of how Ilya Ivanovich became Sir Ilya Muromets. Naturally, the Soviet cinema, despite having no problem with magical monsters, wanted no part of >GOD< getting glory for curing the cripple. Instead, the movie showed a herbalist doing the job. I...
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    Geralyn lives in Florida now, so I have no chance to meet her, but I communicate long distance...

    Geralyn lives in Florida now, so I have no chance to meet her, but I communicate long distance. If you remember former forum participant Sculpted Thought, real name Salem Barker, he is an an authority on holistic medicine; I'm trying to persuade Geralyn to give that option a try. What can she...
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    Chief? Since I last messaged you, I've had cause to conclude that LifeMaiden passed away. Now I...

    Chief? Since I last messaged you, I've had cause to conclude that LifeMaiden passed away. Now I have a prayer request for someone else NOT to die. This is a woman about whom I've told EveningStar and Pholus the Centaur. Her name is Geralyn R0gers, and I've known her for most of my adult life...
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    Darius

    Good lifelike detail here. It's true, human eyelids _are_ translucent to a bright enough light. I've experienced this.
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    Spacebullies Two: The Search For More Parody

    COPPERFOX HOPES THAT THE REAL-WORLD LADY GERALYN ROGERS, WRONGED BY LIFE IN MULTIPLE WAYS, WILL SEE THIS PLOT ARC FROM HER HOME IN FLORIDA. EVENING STAR AND PHOLUS THE CENTAUR, WHO KNOW ABOUT GERALYN AND CAN EMPATHIZE, HAVE BOTH BEEN PRAYING ABOUT THAT GOOD WOMAN'S NEEDS. {{ Having given the...
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    Spacebullies Two: The Search For More Parody

    FOR THE SAKE OF THE LATELY-MENTIONED WOMAN I LOVE, WHO HAS CANCER, I'M GOING TO HER PREFERRED NEW SETTING, DIRECTLY TO HER PREFERRED NEW SETTING, WILL NOT PASS DYSTOPIAN EARTH, WILL NOT COLLECT ANY DUNGEONS & DRAGONS CHARACTERS FOR THE PRESENT. STAR TREK-DERIVED STUFF BEGINS ====>> _NOW!!_...
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    New Sonnets, all intended for Geralyn

    SECOND SONNET {note the change in rhyme scheme} The members know my tales of Alipang, An Asian orphan granted a new home. He brought the Writing Club a change of tone, With dialogue which bore G-rated slang. The lovely Geralyn has shared with me Adoption steps-- Korean in our case...
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    New Sonnets, all intended for Geralyn

    ______SONNET NUMBER ONE ABOUT GERALYN_______ The Jesus Movement of the Seventies, In which your servant Copperfox took part, Shook churches which had been too much at ease, Inviting in the foolish and the smart. I and my Mary met young Geralyn, --About whom I withhold a few details, Not...
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    Introduction Thread II

    CHUCK NORRIS WANTED TO GET A CHEST TATTOO, SO HE ASKED MR. T TO SHOOT HIM IN THE CHEST WITH A MACHINEGUN.
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    Introduction Thread II

    To plagiarize the A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together.
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    Hello! If you _don't_ like stories with miserably unhappy endings, _my_ fiction in The...

    Hello! If you _don't_ like stories with miserably unhappy endings, _my_ fiction in The Professor's Writing Club should suit you. Heroes and heroines in my stories have to _earn_ their victories, but I allow them to achieve more than Frank "Dune" Herbert ever allowed _his_ characters to achieve.
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    And Rock Begot Metal

    Anyone acquainted with singer Daniel Powter will understand my frustration over his being such a one-hit wonder. Even Men Without Hats managed to break out of "Safety Dance" by also recording "Pop Goes the World;" but it seemed like Daniel Powter would NEVER escape from being one-hitterish. This...
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    The Continued Adventures of Ilya Muromets

    ( REALLY, IVAN, I MEAN JOHN: AFTER WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER SO LONG, ARE YOU _REALLY_ ADDRESSING ME WITH A FORMAL PRONOUN?) VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV A MODEST INSERT OF BACK STORY: Many generations before Ilya's birth, King Rurik of the Varangians brought...
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    The Continued Adventures of Ilya Muromets

    "Yefrosiniya, dorogaya, how is Ilya doing at the grindstone?" So asked the homesteading farmer Ivan Timofeyevich, calling through the door of the izba (cabin) while he rubbed down his hard-working mule. "He didn't stop with sharpening the spare plowshare, the axe and the knives; he also...
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    The Continued Adventures of Ilya Muromets

    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Anyone who has watched the movie "The 13th Warrior" has been given a glimpse of the fusion, the blending, which created the original Russia-- known to us now as Ukraine-- and went on to create the "Rus" which now carries the name of Russia. The...
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    Peculiarities of the Russian Language

    OUT OF THE ATTIC AT LAST!!!!! Beginning _before_ I joined The Dancing Lawn-- in fact, before I retired from the Navy-- I created a Russian-language graphic novel intended to help military linguists improve their fluency with _written_ Russian. My then-still-living first wife Mary suggested...
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