Sunday, September 30, 2012

utter dismay has wrung me
from the green peach tree
like a thin long white cloud

"A sign or promise of what
 is to come: "an earnest
 of the world's desire not to see
 the conflict repeated elsewhere".

within thy earnest burnest
a break for the people
of eternal fire...feel it !

j.a. knolls

JK Rowling peers behind the curtains at the nastiness of her peers

Rowling's adult novel has upset middle-class critics with its attack on snide, middle-class hypocrisy.
JK Rowling with her new novel
JK Rowling with her new novel Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images

Behind Spain's turmoil lies a cronyism that stifles the young and ambitious

The country needs more than a bailout. It needs a revolutionary change in its hidebound social structures.