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• 7/1/2008 7:45 PM chris brooks wrote:
  Thank you for putting something in there besides Byron and Coleridge... (they are rather dry) . There is more variety now .. thank you...
  I'm a newbie so will be cranky without more to choose from...
  
  
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  1. 7/1/2008 7:57 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Thanks, Chris!
     
     Coleridge is the guy who wrote "water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink."  I guess that could be either wet or dry... lol.  More will be coming soon - something for everyone's taste. 
     
     Obviously, I'm fond of Byron.
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• 7/1/2008 8:03 PM chris brooks wrote:
  Yes.. I like him... but the cantos are soooo loong....
  
  Please mix in some shorter pieces... that is my only request...
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  1. 7/1/2008 8:58 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Cool...
     
     Some of the other Byron pieces I've posted are much shorter than the cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.  But a lot more short works by other writers are on their way.
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     1. 7/1/2008 9:17 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
        P.S.  I just added The Conqueror Worm (by Edgar Allan Poe) - the first poem I ever memorized!
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        1. 7/1/2008 9:44 PM Elena wrote:
           When I found the Ballad of Reading Gaol I did make a comment or two. The problem was wading through about 20 or 50 pages of Byron to get there. It is hard to read Byron on-line and it is like eating ten pieces of cake before the salad. But I must say that it got me started trying to find Oscar Wilde in my library but nobody at all has read my blog on Roditi so I wonder what good it does to post these writers. I personally don't read blogs to tell what people did for lunch or what little nonsense they manufacture to just keep their personal journals. I have too much else to read of substance (except for my close friends on my space) I like criticism of the writers and not just posting their works. But then I was a prof and got used to analysis. I remember one English professor I met who had his students go to the library and go into the stacks and touch each book they saw.
           Interesting how much they learned just by doing that exercise. But I find it hard to read a lot of pages on the computer screen. I tend to speed read and miss half of what I see. Also with my own books I like to write and underline sometimes when the particular passage says something I want to remember. You can't do this with a computer screen unless you print it out.
           Anyway it is a noble effort to put a library on a computer.
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           1. 7/1/2008 10:19 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
              Thanks for your feedback, Elena.
              
              I hope that folks will contribute analysis to some of the pieces - engage in discussion et cetera.  I very much enjoyed your comments on The Ballad of Reading Gaol.  I mentioned the category archives in the left sidebar because they provide a way for you to avoid having to scroll through other works to get to the one you want.  I personally have not had time to post comments about each of the pieces in the library, though I've written about them in my old journals (and I'll probably post these old writings in the comments as I rediscover them).  Once I get caught up on some other things, I plan to write blogs about certain authors and post supporting works in the library.  I plan to do lots of things, actually - some of them I'll keep close my vest so they'll be a surprise.
              
              P.S.  I've just added the story A White Heron (by Sarah Orne Jewett) to the library (finally a woman author!).  I originally read it in prison (around 2000?) for an Ohio University 19th Century American Literature course.  When I find the essay I wrote about it then, I will post it in the comments.
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• 7/1/2008 9:14 PM meribeth wrote:
  this the utmost in grooviness *grins*
  
  btw, i got hee just now through a bulletin link and i had to promise TOM that i would not enter my password here. he's such a sucker, he thinks i might actually listen to him... hee hee...
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  1. 7/1/2008 9:44 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Thanks, Meribeth!
     
     Perhaps Tom will be less worried if I post a piece named after him, like Tom Sawyer or Uncle Tom's Cabin.
     
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     1. 7/1/2008 10:11 PM meribeth wrote:
        i think he's just jealous of voting and seeing results...
        
        how about stephen king's "the tommyknockers?" haha
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        1. 7/1/2008 10:13 PM meribeth wrote:
           hmmmm... i hope dickinson doesn't slap you for not having any women on the list yet
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           1. 7/1/2008 10:25 PM meribeth wrote:
              i think you were posting this as i was writing my comment...
              
              http://library.crisischronicles.com/2008/07/01/a-white-heron-by-sarah-orne-jewett.aspx
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           2. 7/1/2008 10:25 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
              Funny... I just posted a woman before seeing your comment!
              
              I was actually going to add Dickinson the other day, but the grandkids arrived before I could do so.  She will be coming.  But I decided today to make the first female author on the site one that a lot of people don't know nowadays.  Plus, the piece I posted by her is a short story - and I didn't have any of those posted yet either.
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• 7/1/2008 9:15 PM meribeth wrote:
  btw, i;m pretty sure there should be an r in the first hee, but don't quote me on that...
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  1. 7/1/2008 9:42 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Perhaps...
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     1. 7/1/2008 10:09 PM meribeth wrote:
        i do seem to be full of hee's tonight, so it's quite possible it was meant to be.
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• 7/1/2008 10:26 PM Kurt wrote:
  Great library
  
  I would like to make a suggestion for a new widget list - "Friend's Favorites".
  
  I am working on a blog that is about excerpts from "Children of the Mind" by Orson Scott Card (ISBN-10: 0312853955 ).
  
  I would love to help support Crisis Chronicles by sending interested parties your way.
  
  Thanks
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  1. 7/1/2008 10:51 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Thanks, Kurt!  I appreciate your comment and support.  I've not read Children of the Mind yet - but now you've got me intrigued.  I'll look for it at the library.  Would love to post some of it here - wonder how much they'll allow me to excerpt before they consider it a copyright infringement.  And I look forward to your blog, as always.
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• 7/3/2008 9:26 PM smith wrote:
  this is a fantastic idea. way to go.
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  1. 7/4/2008 7:44 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Thanks, Smith!
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