Red Mosquito

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Bammer wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:In the past few years I’ve started collecting earliest editions i can afford of books from my favorite sci fi authors. Currently trying to obtain old copies of the Barsoom series

For display only, or do you flip through them with your greasy fingers?

BurtReynolds wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:In the past few years I’ve started collecting earliest editions i can afford of books from my favorite sci fi authors. Currently trying to obtain old copies of the Barsoom series

Have you ever watched this guy's stuff? He mostly reviews old sci Fi books and recently found a bunch of original books in a random bookstore in Southeast Asia.

https://youtu.be/k0H584ftkQU?si=v--MHq3tge0JqbfP

Bammer wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:In the past few years I’ve started collecting earliest editions i can afford of books from my favorite sci fi authors. Currently trying to obtain old copies of the Barsoom series

For display only, or do you flip through them with your greasy fingers?

BurtReynolds wrote:Learning German.

I also bought a Rubik's Cube yesterday.

dad wrote:we've been doing jigsaw puzzles lately. i guess that's my hobby now.

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:we've been doing jigsaw puzzles lately. i guess that's my hobby now.

possibly us too..my FIL always has one or 2 going on at his house

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:we've been doing jigsaw puzzles lately. i guess that's my hobby now.

possibly us too..my FIL always has one or 2 going on at his house

we have a glass of wine while working on them.

i'm sure whiskey works too.

bodysnatcher wrote:Puzzles would be fun to get into but I don’t have a table

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:we've been doing jigsaw puzzles lately. i guess that's my hobby now.

possibly us too..my FIL always has one or 2 going on at his house

we have a glass of wine while working on them.

i'm sure whiskey works too.

you guys are out of control . . .

Chris_H_2 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Learning German.

I also bought a Rubik's Cube yesterday.

there's this weirdo that rides the train into the city once a week. younger guy, somewhat put together. he will sit in the upper level across from us. he uses some duolingo app in german that he plays at full volume on his phone. every time that thing says something, he repeats it back, and there's this constant "dinging" that is very, very, very annoying. no one wants to call him out on it because they're afraid that he'll follow and murder them.

he wore a "wharton school of business alum" sweatshirt one day.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Learning German.

I also bought a Rubik's Cube yesterday.

there's this weirdo that rides the train into the city once a week. younger guy, somewhat put together. he will sit in the upper level across from us. he uses some duolingo app in german that he plays at full volume on his phone. every time that thing says something, he repeats it back, and there's this constant "dinging" that is very, very, very annoying. no one wants to call him out on it because they're afraid that he'll follow and murder them.

he wore a "wharton school of business alum" sweatshirt one day.

BurtReynolds wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Learning German.

I also bought a Rubik's Cube yesterday.

there's this weirdo that rides the train into the city once a week. younger guy, somewhat put together. he will sit in the upper level across from us. he uses some duolingo app in german that he plays at full volume on his phone. every time that thing says something, he repeats it back, and there's this constant "dinging" that is very, very, very annoying. no one wants to call him out on it because they're afraid that he'll follow and murder them.

he wore a "wharton school of business alum" sweatshirt one day.

German is easy so far. It's mostly english words said in a loud and menacing way.

DAS EEST GOOT!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Learning German.

I also bought a Rubik's Cube yesterday.

there's this weirdo that rides the train into the city once a week. younger guy, somewhat put together. he will sit in the upper level across from us. he uses some duolingo app in german that he plays at full volume on his phone. every time that thing says something, he repeats it back, and there's this constant "dinging" that is very, very, very annoying. no one wants to call him out on it because they're afraid that he'll follow and murder them.

he wore a "wharton school of business alum" sweatshirt one day.

German is easy so far. It's mostly english words said in a loud and menacing way.

DAS EEST GOOT!

I took five years of German between high school and college. It isn't bad but if it is your first new language to learn after English, the sentence structure can throw you off sometimes.