Lawrence Hall
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Muster
There is no American Legion hall
It was sold long ago to pay the bills
A few old men gather in borrowed rooms
To pledge allegiance to a nation that
Has never pledged her allegiance to them
But still they offer their service and faith
To a wonderfully indifferent nation
And to its equally indifferent God
They muster again on the trail because
There is no American Legion hall
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The former address, "reactionary drivel," was a P. G. Wodehouse gag that few ever understood to be a mildly self-deprecating joke. Drivel, perhaps, but not reactionary. Neither the Red Caps nor the Reds ever got it.
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Dispatches from the Colonial Office
Lawrence's latest book, Dispatches from the Colonial Office, about teaching in a community college, is available, along with Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, Don't Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, and The Road to Magdalena, from Amazon.com both as a Kindle and as bits of dead tree.
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- The University as a Free-Fire Zone
- Had Byron Lived a Few Years Longer
- A Morning in March
- The Morning Paper and a Cigarette
- The Morning Paper and a Cigarette
- The Great Gatsby
- A Letter from France, 1919
- What Was in the White House Package?
- A Funeral
- Old Karamazov
- Welcome to Texas
- POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE
- Die Skihutte / The Ski Hut
- Dante
- A Flicker of Life
- On the Desecration of Jewish Cemeteries in France
- Muster
- Feeding the Beast
- President Jerry Judge Judy Genn Rush Kardashian
- Do Luddies Read?
- Rainbows
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About This Not-Really Reactionary
- Lawrence Hall, HSG
- Y'r 'umble scrivener knows how to milk cows (altho' he long ago swore to own no livestock larger than dachshunds), build fences, clear brush, and cut firewood. After 18 months in Viet-Nam and Cambodia he worked his way through university as an ambulance driver, nurses' aide, and then LVN. BA in History, University of San Diego, 1976; MEd, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1984; MA in English, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2002. He also taught school, but that makes him a class (no pun) enemy just now. He has been rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America.
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