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.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

A Jasper Cop and the Museum of Elvis

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com A Jasper Cop and the Museum of Elvis Several weeks ago I was privileged to meet one of Jasper’s p...

What We Can Learn From DANGER MAN

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com What We Can Learn from Danger Man Although the names and numbers change, as is only right in a go...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Chess - the Most Dangerous Game

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Just Pass Some More Laws Last week, two players died during a world championship chess match in No...

Catholic Pig-Wrestling

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Pig-Rasslin’ in Wisconsin "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many th...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Absolutely the Very Last End of the World

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Absolutely the Very Last End of the World “The situation is hopeless, hopeless! But it’s not serious...

Some Other Planet

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Some Other Planet A youth in his curiosity wants To fling himself in a swift silver ship To wander s...

Mad Dogs and Whippoorwills

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Mad Dogs and Whippoorwills In the gasping, colorless noon A whippoorwill, with a poor will, Opens hi...

The Importunate Deceits of August

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Importunate Deceits of August Grim August is the month of unbelief When all the happy optimisms o...

Deep Dusk

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Deep Dusk The crescent moon presides in dignity Over the twilight lawn, attended by Tonight’s appoin...

Saint Augustine of Africa

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Saint Augustine of Africa Between the desert and the sea Along an ancient Roman way A man writes for...

North of the Interstate

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com North of the Interstate First Nations lived here when the world was young, And something of them sti...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Hummingbirds at Breakfast and War

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Hummingbirds at Breakfast and War At breakfast hummingbirds are very rude They bully each other out o...

July is Not a Thinking Month

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com July is Not a Thinking Month July is not a thinking month The heat and the humidity Fatigue the worl...

Dragonfly on Patrol

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dragonfly on Patrol While droning through the midday heat On wings which wildly, swiftly beat A drag...

La Conquistadora

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com La Conquistadora In the long ago La Conquistadora Conquered us, without conquering at all; She sits...

Llano Estacado

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Llano Estacado Escarpments and grasses forever and ever Alive beneath the grey forever-sky, Creation...

A Full Moon over New Mexico

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com A Full Moon over New Mexico Part of the fascination with the San Antonio chain of missions (Nuestra S...

The Lonesome Dove Cooking Show

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Cooking with Gus and the Captain Popular novels and Orwellian telescreen programs such as Downton Abb...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Votive Candles

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   Votive Candles   For Abbie and ‘Zander   They haven’t been penny c...

Stopping by Commas on a Snowy Evening

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com 6 July 2014   Stopping by Commas on a Snowy Evening   An acquaintance, d...
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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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