Lawrence Hall

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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Friday, August 8, 2025

As You Sometimes Remind Me - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office As You Sometimes Remind Me One day I'll sudden...

Monday, January 20, 2020

Teenagers in the Book Store - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com Teenagers in the Book Store “Only the solitary seek the truth” -Boris ...

Saturday, April 6, 2019

"Do Not Touch This Cloud-Dweller" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com “Do Not Touch This Cloud-Dweller” -attributed to Stalin in a note forbidding the arrest of Boris ...

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Some Year's Day - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Some Year’s Day What century is it outside? -Boris Pasternak It’s a fair question: what centu...

Monday, October 21, 2013

Upon Reading Doctor Zhivago

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Upon Reading Doctor Zhivago Love lost along abandoned railway lines, Grave-cold, gra...

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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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