Bosca Dubh

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

Milwaukee Avenue, Minneapolis.

Now see these:

• 4 temps from Elaine
• Inside Bryce from Perspective Images
• at the old royal navy college in Greenwich from rion.nu
• Sushi Ho from Hmmm
• untitled from Vladimir Leiman

Mississippi River Gorge, south of Lake Street.

Now see these:

• Woodland dawn from absolutely nothing
• into the land of snow from Peter Izarik
• Munich Subway I from phototraveler.de
• Playing With Fire from Bit’s Photography

I never knew the earth had so much gold—
The fields run over with it, and this hill
Hoary and old,
Is young with buoyant blooms that flame and thrill.

“Feuerzauber” by Louis Untermeyer

Now see these:

• Beanstalk from HELLO
• Twist from Wood | Stone
• Forward from Aperture First

Now see these:

• OVERVIEW from Wink
• rooms from electrolite
• success from bighappyfunhouse
• Parle moi! from Elaine

Big Nobel news: congratulations to Doris Lessing, whose unflinching and complex novels and stories about the relations between the races and sexes have finally earned her the nod from Stockholm. If you haven’t read “The Golden Notebook” or “The Cleft”, get to work!

Oh, and some guy with a PowerPoint presentation won some prize or other, too. Kudos to him as well.

Forenoon update:

Here’s the link to the excerpts from Dwight Garner’s 1997 Salon interview with Doris Lessing: ‘I Would Have Become an Alcoholic or Ended in the Loony Bin’

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

The University of Michigan’s graduate library staff presents a Flickr collection of banned books pictures, including “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, “The Call of the Wild”, “Slaughterhouse Five”, and “Leaves of Grass”.