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.

Monday, January 30, 2017

The Pump Trumps Trump - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Pump Trumps Trump Enough about the president. Let us discuss adventures in buying gasoline alon...

Cats are Iambic Pentameter - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Cats are Iambic Pentameter Light-footed cats are nature’s iambics Each subtle feline step unstressed...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation The institution is committed to ongoing, integrated, an...

Empdocles in Etna - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Empedocles in Etna Empedocles – he taught There’s nothing beyond death; In trimeter he wrought U...

Matthew Arnold's Merope - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Matthew Arnold’s Merope If she had swung that axe, our Merope, Her son Aepytus would be dead, you se...

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...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Parthian Thoughts from the InauGRRRRRation - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Parthian Thoughts from the InauGRRRRRation Lawless day-riders, channeling the Ku Klux Klan in masks ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Presidential Inauguration Edition - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Presidential Inauguration Edition Consider this possibility: at the precise and somewhat tense momen...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Where's Waldo's Pickup Truck? - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Where’s Waldo’s Pickup Truck? Hey, kids! Forget that omnivorous dog – the excuse now is that the Ru...
Friday, January 6, 2017

"Until the First Star" - Orthodox Christmas Eve

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com “Until the First Star” – Orthodox Christmas Eve The first star won’t be seen this night. The clouds ...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Wouldn't You Like to Die in My Beautiful Balloon? - column

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Wouldn’t You Like to Die in my Beautiful Balloon? Last month, on 19 December, the real presiden...

The McDonald's Around the Corner from the Vatican - poem

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What Would Chaucer’s Pardoner Say? Someone has opened a McDonald’s there Around the corner from Saint Peter’s Square And this has dist...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Good King Wenceslas and His Friends - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Good King Wenceslas and His Friends There is far more to the days after Christmas Day than digestio...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Christmas Morning - Some Dissembling Required

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Morning – Some Dissembling Required Does the quiet magic disappear at dawn? The Star, the ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

What Went ye into the Desert too See? - poem

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What Went ye into the Desert to See? What went ye into the desert to see? A pale liturgist swaying in the wind? A theologian dressed in...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Winter Solstice - The Year's Compline - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Winter Solstice – The Year’s Compline The winter solstice is the year withdrawing From all the busy...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton - poem

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Pilgrimage Along the A1 - Saint Michael's in Chesterton For all DeBeauvilles, Beauvilles, Bevilles, and Bevils Everywhere From ...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Millennials at Work and War - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Millennials at Work and War Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us Now thrown into the exi...

The House of Winds - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The House of Winds The House of Winds can be accessed with this: A work-order from Aeolus time-stamp...

Happy, Happy Christmas - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Happy, Happy Christmas           Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of o...
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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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