Mid-morning. You were up early with the cats
and could not go back to sleep and thought of a few more books/plays you have
read but they are coming harder to find in you head on online links to 100 best
books of whatever persuasion for fun reminders of: 'oh, I read that! I remember
that book!' You are having a good time recollecting then as you go over the
book titles a few are wrong or mistakes so you delete them.
0928
hours. I am having fun. Sometimes a title pops up and I hope to remember until
I can write it down. Mostly I think from now on it will be variances of titles
from authors I already have. A few books/plays I have are not the correct
translations but I am not going to be too fussy on that. What I hope is that
some former students will read over them and find a book(s) for their sons and
daughters to read. I have had a few makes some requests so hopefully it will
serve a more worthwhile purpose. I am surprised too at the diversity in my
reading over the years I never thought about it before. And, it is a tickle in
the memory when I see a title I have not thought about for an age, such as Venus
in the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout. Kilgore Trout is a fictional character
in Slaughter House Five and other books by Kurt Vonnegut. I just see
another one on the floor by the chair, The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai
Tolstoy. I'll have to include this one too. I still do love to read.
After
noon. You got your hair cut, Mary Ann said it has been eight weeks, one of your
longest stretches between cuts. When you came home Carol was working on tax
forms for herself in four years when she turns seventy. You found two more books,
the one from Doug and Nancy, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer and Holy Blood,
Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln to add to your FB collection. -
Amorella
1255
hours. I found two more read books: The Virginian and Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee. I want to say the first was read in the 1960's, might have been
required in American lit at Whitehall-Yearling and the second in the mid-70's.
Seems like it was on my reading list for a quarter course at Indian Hill too
though it wasn't required reading in my class. Others may have required it. Okay,
I'm ready to work on Brothers 16.
Let's go to it. - Amorella
I
am not sure of the setting. I would rather it be somewhere different than the
house or car or even uptown Riverton.
How about at the used bookstore? - Amorella
That's
good, the Village Bookstore on Dublin-Granville Road. I'll have to look it up
for a photo. I can see it in my head inside and out, but not enough detail to
make the setting more realistic.
You downloaded four photographs from the
website, let's use these two, Amorella
Village
Bookstore (change name)
Interior corner
2119
hours. I am almost done with Brothers 16 but I need a conclusion. I don't know
how to end this.
How about silence until the boys arrive at
Richard and Cyndi's house. Cyndi walks out to greet them and to tell them that
she is going to pick up Connie and go to the library. Robert mentions the
problem with religion and politics and Connie tells Richard to just ignore it
like it isn't there since many people are busy going about their business and
not paying any attention to either one. - Amorella
That's good. A bit depressing though.
So, what else is new? Nothing much, you see.
- Amorella
2146 hours. Finished.
Add and post. - Amorella
Thank you, Amorella. It is still
rather depressing.
You don't want to write about people being
left behind though boy. It's been done. Like your brother says, "It's been
done to death." Post. - Amorella
***
The Brothers 16 ©2013 rho, draft
The brothers pulled up beside
to the neatly white clapboarded and brown-trimmed Once-a-Church Book Store, climbed
out of Richard's red GTI and walked over to the austere entrance below the
copper clad roof of the bell tower. Once inside they made their way between
mazes of mostly neat book filled rows and intermixes of interesting cubbyholes
and wall fixtures to the back of the first floor.
Coming up the back corner they
spotted two dark green overstuffed chairs midst a chaos of book cover colors
which gave the simple framed backdrop walls the appearance of large abstract
art forms stacked in various sized three-dimensional rectangular blocks of
color. The two sat down haphazardly into the puffed chairs before perusing
through nearby book sections then to the second floor and returning to the
corner area on their own. Richard arrived first.
While other customers bustled
about Richard grumbled to himself, "Other than my kindly Marsupial
humanoids helping us out, God’s promise to Sarah and Abraham is the only hope I
can come up."
He sat a few more minutes then
spied a Hebrew Bible in English on the nearby table and thumbed through Genesis
until he found Chapter 22:15 which reads, “And the angel of
the LORD called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven, (16) and said: 'By
Myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, (17) that in blessing I will bless
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate
of his enemies; (18) and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'” All nations, thought Richard,
this is pretty inclusive, but how do I keep the
religion out of it?
Robert
came over from the nearby bookstand, “What did you find?” he asked.
“I
found an old Hebrew-English Bible on the table, a 1917 edition, and I have the reference
of God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis.”
"Don't
bring in any miracles," commented Robert, "the book is fiction enough
as it is. What do you think human beings would human beings do knowing they had
help from God?"
"Then
I'll have to leave it to my marsupials," said Richard, who then paused and
continued, "I agree wholeheartedly. I have to leave God out of this; no
religion," he thought, "and no politics."
"It
is only reasonable," continued Robert, "you bring in God and Free
Will disappears. You can't have both in the same operating room. He showed his
brother a book, "I found this 1930's edition of Ezra Pound's works, I'm
going to get it."
Richard
responded, "I can't leave politics out. Surely the rebellions were both
political."
"There's
politics in King Arthur's Court too. So, you're stuck with politics, noted
Robert, "And, what about the Druids and the Christians? You can't go
deleting their religions either." He glanced at his poetry book,
"This is $9.95, not bad. I thought your Marsupials have a religion
also."
"Mom
always said to stay away from religion and politics."
"You're
stuck, my man. Are you going to get the book? I'm ready to go."
"Might
as well." He pushed himself up. "Old Bibles are rather classy in any
case."
"Some
are worth a penny or two," remarked Robert.
They
paid for the books and to the car heading silently back to Riverton. "What
are you going to do about the religion and politics?"
"I
don't know. I don't want this to become like the Left Behind series."
"What
about Earth Abides and I Am Legend?"
"Well,
see, it's been done. You've got The Stand and The Plague.
And, in my original Braided Dreams I had a twin Earth almost
wiped out. The apocalypse has been done to death."
They
rode in the mutual appreciation of silence and upon pulling in the driveway
Cyndi came out the side door, waited for Richard to lower the window and said,
"I'm going to pick up Connie. Rob do you want a ride?" He responded
affirmatively then said, "Dickie has a problem related to religion and
politics in his book, what do you think he ought to do?"
He
was hardly out the door when Cyndi replied, "Ignore them both. That's what
most people do today anyway. People are too busy to put up with the crazies in
either one."
"There
you go, bro. Listen to your woman. Avoid both like they were a plague."
Shortly
Richard was left in silence. Bible in hand he decided to sit on the front porch
in the sunshine before going in the house.
794 words
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