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The Writer's Notebook. Chapter 6: From a Fairy Tale. Once there was a boy who had his heart broken young. You can blame his father, or his mother, or the public school system, or the sadistic other kids, but none of that matters; the point is, this guy had never been un-heartbroken. You see, he was a product of his culture. He was the tightly pixellated picture of American normalcy. It was his professor friend, Bruce, in college, who finally told him. The chemical infected his chromosomes. It was...She w...
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The Writer's Notebook. 8220;[I]t is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that. Happened that night. [.] In truth, Hanoi’s navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2. 8211;National Security Agency Historical Study: “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” [Declassified]. Just tell a little lie, Mr. McNamara, Mr. Johnson, and two years later, my dad is in Vietnam to defend your Domino Theories. Are you thinking about pizza? My Personal L...
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LOL! | The Writer's Notebook
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The Writer's Notebook. Pardon me.do I have any gray poop on me? About Vietnam: Dear H. Bruce Franklin. Dear Mom and Dad: Seriously, No Worries. Love, Charlie. Heyy ur class is closed during the su.mer. Can i still get a special number for it? Juniper Bank, Barclays, What the Fuck EVER. From My Dinner with the Republican Mayor. Ralph Fletcher, A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You. About My Dead Best Friend. Ashton Kucher needs to shut up. Bank of America is a Satanic Church.
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The Writer's Notebook. Sarah Palin has claimed that studies showing polar bears are threatened by global warming are snake oil science. Speaking in Redding, CA, at the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, Palin argued that the science of climate change is really just a plot to hurt oil companies. Those promoting polar bear listing really want to shut down oil and gas leasing in Arctic coastal waters off Alaska. Read More. About Vietnam: Dear H. Bruce Franklin. Are you thinking about pizza? And I’m us...
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Bivona Vietnam War Studies | The Writer's Notebook
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The Writer's Notebook. Wikipedia Note: The Vietnam War, 1944 1945. Bivona Vietnam War Studies. During 1944 1945, a deep famine. Struck northern Vietnam due to a combination of poor weather and French/Japanese exploitation. 1 million people died of starvation (out of a population of 10 million in the affected area). Exploiting the administrative gap. That the internment of the French had created, the Viet Minh in March 1945 urged the population to ransack rice warehouses and refuse to pay their taxes.
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The Writer's Notebook. At the Bar With My Dead Best Friends. June 4, 2010. Who are your dead? Have them meet in a poem, even if they never met in life. And describe how they interact. Sang was late. He got held up at the office. He had to stop for cigarettes. 8230;and there was traffic. Sorry. Frank and I were on a third round. We were laughing through old stories. And that little blonde girl that you were in love with, what was her name? Oh, I don’t know. I lit a cig. He did. He laughed from his gut.
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420 | The Writer's Notebook
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The Writer's Notebook. Ode: On Sharon Pitner's Impending Visit. SO, tell me, man, about this ingenious chick who’s traveling from Clifton to the door of your garden apartment in the New Jersey night. Tell me she’s bringing pretzels — hopefully dutch bavarian, because they remind me of the movie. Have you ever seen. It’s a classic. It. Shifting electrical meat storms: a cut-up poem. Angry Lapsed Catholic Poem for Ash Wednesday. Excerpt from Emails to Jennifer Lee. About My Dead Best Friend. A writer’s not...
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The Writer's Notebook. June 20, 2010. How did this happen? Silly Charlie went off his medication when Sang died. It was a typical grief reaction. We understood. And so began the downward spiral. It was a slow downward slide this time. In fact, the depression surrounded him so slowly the angle of the decline was so slightly descending, day after day after day that Charlie didn’t notice he was heading into a psychological wind storm. Which he will be keeping! Pray for him, please. June 12, 2010. And just f...