What Are You Reading?

...Reading, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman, while enjoying a bowl of McC #2025 in a Neerup partially rusticated apple Churchwarden

Just starting: "Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime" by John Dunning

G'day amongst my different bibles this is my regular prayer Bible, peace.

G'eve , gents & ladies, reflecting on the wisdom of the seven churches of Asia after the fall of Constantinople, it would be so lovely to winter somewhere hot & exotic,  whether the seven Isles of the Canaries besides wonderful Afrika's shores or even the seven Isles of the Western Mediterranean,  beachcombing & lotus eating with the prodigal sons , in the flat sea of the southern RAJ or perhaps the seven multi Isles of the Greek shores.
The Atlantic is as deep as the Himalayas are high, but the southern African ocean's of the Atlantic & Pacific above the seven seas are very inviting, dreaming of travel is often better than the real thing , a mate of mine travelled the world & won a Buddhist wife of far Japan,  but it cost him a lot,  as a zen monk, it is good to anchor after your pilgrimage,  or the ship will be seized by far off pirates with their black sails, but business is business, & the Sailors are given plenty of rope, books are fine & once read can warm a cold soul, in a welcome fire for some good food & drink, such is life, that's life as they say down south, but silicon macpc tablets what use for the table are they I wonder in my glass box cell playing ball with Stevie. See Ya.

G'day, is there hope in stillness & silence, holy stone Joe, beneath the seven holy Parthenons of wooden bonfires, for Troy......pax.

The Little Mariner 
BY ODYSSEUS ELYTIS
TRANSLATED BY OLGA BROUMAS
Spotlight a

SCENE ONE: Open-air court in the ancient city of Athens. The accused arrive
and proceed among curses and cries of Death! Death!

SCENE TWO: A jail in the same city, beneath the Acropolis, walls half-eaten by
dampness. On the ground, a miserly straw mat and in the corner,
an earthenware jar of water. On the outside wall, a shadow: the
guard.

SCENE THREE: Constantinople. In the harem of the Holy Place, in candlelight,
the Queen throws a pouch of gold coins to the Head Eunuch
who bows and looks at her significantly. By the open door, his
men at the ready.

SCENE FOUR: Drawing room of a large Monastery. Oblong table, the abbot at
its head. Sweaty monks come and go bringing news: a crowd
spills into the streets, setting fires, destroying everything.

SCENE FIVE: Nauplio. Greek and Bavarian officers outside the King’s quarters
converse in low tones. A messenger takes the dispatch and heads
toward the steps that lead on high to Palamidi.

SCENE SIX: In front of an old and empty lot in contemporary Athens, a
crowd, motley with priests and bishops, gathers to cast a stone,
“the stone of anathema.”

SCENE SEVEN: Low buildings of EAT/ESA. In the courtyard, drunken soldiers.
Braying and lewd posturing. The officer leaving some cell says
something to the military doctor. Behind them thuds and cries
are heard.

G'day,  Lest we forget,  in the Holly & Ivy party time,  bye

Just started "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood.

The Civil War, A Narrative, Volume 1 by Shelby Foote

"Paris 1919" by Margaret MacMillan, the story of the peace treaty WW1 that lead to WW11. If you read "Dreadnought" by Robert K. Massie, the story of the arms race that lead up to WW1, then "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman, the first month of the war; and "The First World War" by John Keegan, you will get a good background of the era that brought us the horror of the War to End All Wars.

A good read, John?

Pipe Smoking Bertrand Russel has a chapter devoted to him, a pretty dark individual.

MF Horn- autobiography of Maynard Ferguson ( God of high note trumpeters)

Gilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg. A re-telling of the Mesopotamian epic by a sci-fi writer. I fully expected it to be super cheesy and to give up after a chapter or two, but it's pretty well written and well-researched.