Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
The Witanagemot
Under wide oaks men sit with pipes alight
And soft old amber single-malt to hand
The sun has just now set, the failing day
Resolves itself into a cooling dusk
Tobacco, talk, and time incense the air
And silent fireflies dance until the stars
Join with them in a festival of lights
While birds make wing to Shakespeare’s rooky wood
Crickets and frogs sing to celebrate the moon
And good men sit and talk, with pipes alight
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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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- More Things People Never Say
- Embrace Your Inner Adult
- Casablanca - The Remake
- The Heart of the House
- The Fall of Man
- Birdsong
- Decoration Day on A.M. Radio
- A Bonfire of the Tree of Life
- The Mobius Strip
- Why is the Man in the Moon Always Happy?
- Our Lady of Walsingham
- Baby Boomers
- Mockingbirds on Patrol
- A Keeper of Civilization
- Dimitri in America
- The Witanagemot
- Subversive
- Pursued by Hallway Gideons
- The Ten-Thirty / Seven-Thirty Shift
- No One Ever Said the War was Over
- Invasion of the Metaphors
- The Bates Motel and Recording Studio
- The Face on the Twenty-Dollar Bill
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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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