That i am one person, that i will live and die alone, that i will only ever inhabit this one consciousness. I was wrong about this too. To read this poem was to be in conversation with a level deeper than who we are, where we are and what our homely words and thoughts and deeds and lives dont mean. Still, enduring merit, until this summer did i even believe in it . Did i simply believe enduring merit could never be agreed upon, that all things are relative and, therefore, can not be said to have merit and their endurance cannot be predicted . If so, i no longer believe it or even remember believing it. These five radioactive books glowed green and dustless among the others. If they are not still read in 100 years, it will mean the cockroaches only survived whatever happened to vegas. There is always more mystery in a closed box than in an opened box. Nope. When it comes to a box full of poetry, that is not true. Over the summer those boxes turned into a room full of books full of poetr
Agency. My only rule at five in the morning, i had to start writing, get right into the story before i could put the water on for coffee. Most of the fiction i wrote at daybreak sold the magazine. For 2 cents a word. 310 to yuma in 1953, 4500 words western, sold 490. Two years later, a studio paid 4000 to make a movie starring glenn ford. And i liked it a lot, but walter called the picture three hours and 10 minutes past high noon. [laughter] in 1969, i wrote my first book that wasnt a western called the big bounce. My agent in hollywood at the time to read, called and said kidd, im going to make you rich. He saw the big bounce as a quick movie sale. Send it out to producers over the next few months and got 84 rejections. I did top that record. I got 105 rejections for another story that offered hitchcock bought, but then died on [laughter] but the book did so, and, and twice was adapted for the screen. Now, i cant believe anyone in this room so that either version of the picture or re
Beijing put up with it my guest this week here in the city is running tong a member of the Hong Kong Governments capital and Senior Advisor to its chief executive gary locke to the authorizes now except that the new extradition law which provoked the crisis should be scrapped now and for good. Welcomes comfort some. 2000000 people on the streets of hong kong. Failures by the Hong Kong Government admitted by the chief executive kerry lam why is she still there why hasnt she was done and well i think this is a more complex question than simply asking why did she not resign 1st of all someone find also not go out of somebodys sails in there well not go there no i dont want to argue about a figure but. A more accurate figure would be more like half a 1000000. But even then its a very very large number of people on the street and i think the government accepted that the 2nd thing is that we must understand what the government had been trying to do. A poll by one of the more mainstream newsp
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