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Friday, November 11, 2011

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.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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.