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FREE KEN APPOLLO...
Local resident steals a citizens false teeth and winds up arrested
for trespass...a march to free Mr.
Appollo will be held in Rhinebeck ending up at the Rhinecliff Hotel where all those in attendance will have a nice portion
of the Chef's specialty,
Fish and Chips.
The domain name has been sold
by Mr. Lemkowitz to a subsidiary of News Corp ( News Corporation)
Mr. Lemkowitz will still be editor/publisher until
such time that he will not be editor/publisher/photographer and local radio host. That time will not come soon as he works
CHEAP !
This site is under new construction as of May 5, 2010
All photography shown on this site will
be that of Mr. Lemkowitz our ed/pub except where indicated.
| An arranged marriage ( Brighton Beach) |
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| Pink Toilet ( B.Lemkowitz) |
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GEOFFREY
CHAUCER'S
THE
CANTERBURY TALES (reviewed by B. Lemkowitz )
A RETELLING
BY PETER ACKROYD ( VIKING BOOKS $35 )
Now, as every English
schoolboy knows..........
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droughte of Marche
hath pierced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich liquor
Of which virtu engendered
is the flour
in the retelling.............
' When the soft sweet showers of April, reach
the roots of all things, refreshing the parched earth
nourishing every sapling and every seedling, then
humankind rises up in joy and expectation....'
I was sitting in my
backyard last summer with my friend Larry the rug dealer when out of nowhere he starts reciting the prologue to the Canterbury
Tales in the original Middle English..... " When that April with his showers soote..." Holy Shit said I
.. and almost fell off the bench, I was stunned, not that Larry is a dope or something, but how many times in your life do
you hear that narration..? I won't get into the details but what he uttered are a few of the most famous lines in
all of literature, especially to an Englishman.
Peter Ackroyd, the great English critic,historian and writer has
turned his hand to a retelling in prose of The Canterbury Tales, arguably the greatest poem in the English language.
The U.K. Observer has described the new prose version as a ' new crib for generations of students to come'
Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343-1400) English poet and diplomat is creditied as being the first author to demonstrate the
legitimacy of the vernacular
We are sorry that Knopf and Pantheon
Books... ( Pantheon being an imprint) do not find us to be a legitimate reviewer of books despite the fact that we have
been doing this for 33 years both in NYC and now for 10 years in the mid-Hudson Valley...shame on you !!!
THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE / NELL IRVIN PAINTER / W.W. NORTON / $ 27.95 cloth/ 512 pages.
Do white people belong to a race ? Is there more than one white race? Why have beauty and whiteness been so paired
through the ages ? All these answers and more lie in this fascinating and comprehensive assessment of western ideas of race,
beauty and blood from antiquity to present .
A masterpiece of scholarship. 'THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE' explains
that notions of race-white,black beautiful and ugly - are and always have been as fluid as the changing face of America.
Thanks to Elyse Topalian and Rebecca Herman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for escorting us through the Museum's
Picasso exhibition after hours. Our tour will be covered in the late May edition of our newsletter.
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