Merlin

By Henry Carlile b. 1934 Henry Carlile

And once out walking at night

I stumbled across the speckled body

of a small hawk,

the hasp of its wings closed.

One note, one note.

It sings in the rills between words,

between hopes.

It sleeps between leaves in a book,

gathers like dust on the piano.

I heard it once on a green hill

in Aberdeen in short puffs of wind

stirring the new grass among stones.

Prayer could not alter it

nor clods breaking upon bronze.

More On Lullaby. . .

after reading more the book begins to make more sense consequently, books tend to do that. I'm not sure where i ended last time, but I'll start again at chapter 4. chapter four consist of many vital things that are major parts in the book. it starts with the journalist investigating "crib deaths" which means when a baby dies randomly for no specific reason. his assignment consist of the cause of these deaths and any other patterns he can find in them and then writing a story about them. soon enough he finds the cause and decides that it is caused by a song that is commonly read to baby's in Africa. these babies are dieing of sicknesses and this became the way to cause painless death to them and ending their suffering. his way to test this song and see if it works is reading it to he boss, and seeing if he dies the next day.
 the following week, three days after reading it to his boss, nobody has seen his boss, Duncan, around anywhere. the national editor, Henderson, is walking around the office yelling and seaching for duncan because his street newspaper is due in 20 minutes. while all this is happening Streator, the journalist, is pondeering the playout of this song thoughtout the world. he cant tell anyone about it because they would have to read it. and he is imaginging a wourld without music, books, radio, newspaper and everone wearing ear plugs to block out the songs that might kill them. every place that has any type of media outlet would have to have airport-like secuirty guards that filter the books, internet, and other media so nobody gets killed by the song. Well I'm still not sure if Duncan is dead, but i'm almost sure he is. this means there will be another post explaining more about the book.

Close Reading Bingo...

Common Weaknesses:

1.  Salinger uses words with mainly negative connotations that are easy to understand yet are somewhat hostile.  He also uses dull sarcasm like when he describes his parents as "nice".-rule 6 and rule 8   http://bradey.blogspot.com/
2. Salinger first describes the parents as “touchy as hell”. -Rule 8      http://letsgetawesome5.blogspot.com/
3. Starting at the LOW side of the y axis, Nic Sheff bluntly uses vulgar language to remember a time he had with a previous girlfriend.
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4. Common weakness #4: "Throughout this except, the vocabualary is easy to read, allowing the common people to read the book, without having a lot of education."
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Practice Diction Analysis...

In This excerpt from The Mezzanine has a precise a dignified suggestiveness ad refinement. Nicholson Baker describes The businesslike movements of the "black rubber handrails" and meticulous "brushed-steel side-panels." The rushed feeling of urgency when he starts to step on the elevator depicts the harsh sounds of rush hour in a mall on Christmas eve. The breezy feeling of ease when he notices the "Long glossy highlights" in the the cracks that hang among escalators. His clam, but intense attention to detail leaves readers intimidated yet expectant for the forth coming of his next step.

New Book...

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk is one of the strangest books I've started, I'm only on chapter 3, but the book starts with a prologue that is about two ghost hunters/psychics that work for a Realtor. Their job is to investigate houses that are haunted and then wait till the people move out and then resell the house. In chapter one they blatantly ignore the prologue and talk about a journalist. I mean don't get me wrong the journalist is interesting and all, but they totally switched the story line.

The Journalist talks about how everything happens after the fact, every story that is, and how presentation is everything. if you don't present something right you can easily give the wrong first impression.Chapter 2 is more on the journalist and how she had a crappy teacher that taught he a valuable lesson in reporting stories. within the lesson is a baby that choked on an ornament which is kinda strange. You can read it if your interested, but its at your own risk. Chapter 3 is another swap of people this one is unexplained. is starts off with the inner thoughts of somebody who lives in an apartment building with really loud neighbors that they call "sound-oholics". I think their have too much free time if they have to worry about that, to tell you the truth. The guy goes to the store limping for some reason or another and the guy at the cash register hands him a tightly wrapped bag of something and says "that will be a hundred and forty-nine dollars."  This makes me think that he is some sort of druggie, but despite cruel thoughts he gets back to he apartment and walks in complaing about the loud drum beats he can hear though the walls. This part i think is strange, he goes to the bathroom, locks the door and turns off the lights so now he is in pitch black darkness. he sits on the toliet and yanks the bag out and onto the floor and pulls out a miniture building of some sort. he takes it into the kitchen and puts it all together, its turns out to be a house, and by the time he is done its 4 in the morning and the pounding music is gone and all that is left is the claming sound of selience. so on that note he takes off his sock and puts the freshly made house on the ground. without second guessing he stomps away at the house, no matter how bad it hurts he keeps on stomping. and then the chapter ends. I'll keep reading a tell you maore about it on another day.

Style Mapping...

The Excert from The Mud Below Annie Pnoulx's exact denotative connotation placed with a well elevated discriptive language. The adealine injected cheering of the crowd and violent spasisms of the bull give a noisy claging sound to this excert. the bluntness of a troting horse through the western plains shows the low diction and connotative somberness and the harsh night silence leaves you wondering about the lone cowboy in Blood Medidian by Cormac McCarthy. The last excert from Survivor by Palahniuk Has a powerfulfully high elevation fortified by a strong connotative tone and ended with a blunt sound leaving anyone who reads this picking their jaw up of the floor.    

Quarterly...

This 9 weeks I've have finished only one book ,but i read two, which is a lot for me sadly enough. the book i finished was survivor and that was a very very good book. it makes you think differently because the main character grew up in a different world than most people in the entire world. He grew up in a cult and slowly be comes the last one alive in the cult due to the progression of the book. the whole book reads backwards because it starts on page 245 or something close to that and  reads all the way too page one. this is my favorite book so far. the other book I've read is art of war and that was pretty good it was really simple yet extremely complex in many ways. the book is read in a numbered list explaining tactics and the "ways" a war should be handled. Sun Tuz wrote this book like 3000 years ago so it sometimes can get confusing. And i also added a monkey to make this more interesting.