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| User: | difrancis (9965375)  Mad Libs
much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye |
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| Name: | Diana Pharaoh Francis | |
| Website: | Diana on the Web | |
| Bio: | Fantasy writer/mother/chocaholic/lover of wine/lover of sparkleys/easily amused/morbid sense of humor/Dr. (PhD in Victorian lit)/carboholic/avid reader/teacher/wife/musically eclectic/clodzilla Novel I'm working on: The Turning Tide, third in the Crosspointe Chronicles Coming in November 2008: The Black Ship, second of the Crosspointe Chronicles I'm an associate professor of English at the University of Montana Western.      Mottoes to live by: "TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" ~Edgar Allen Poe "Ever try. Ever fail. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ~Samuel Beckett Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ~William Butler Yeats Before englightenment: Chopping Wood and Carrying Water After englightenment: Chopping Wood and Carrying Water Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ~from Ulysess, by Alfred Tennyson I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. ~ from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" byT.S. Eliot, If you'd like to friend me, please do so. No need to ask. If I don't happen to friend you back, it is only because my friends list is very limited to keep me from procrastinating as much as I dearly like to do. | |
| Memories: | 59 entries | |
| Pictures: | over 30 public | |
| Interests: | 58: anne bishop, australia, blood ties, bones, bread baking, carol berg, charles dickens, charlotte yonge, csi, doris lessing, edgar allen poe, edward said, emily eden, england, fantasy, farscape, fiction, foucault, genre fiction, geocaching, goshawks, herbs, homi bhabha, horses, iafa, icfa, ireland, judith butler, kristen britain, literary theory, marjorie oliphant, medieval life, michel foucault, miscon, new zealand, novel writing, octavia butler, patricia briggs, plants, ports, postcolonialism, raptors, sailing, sarah monette, scotland, speculative fiction, speculative literature, tall ships, teaching, teaching fiction, teaching writing, tsitsi dangaremba, victorian literature, victorian novels, william butler yeats, wiscon, women's literature, writing | |
| Schools: | Oakmont High School - Roseville, CA University of California - Davis - Davis, CA (1985 - 1989) Iowa State University - Ames, IA (1990 - 1992) Ball State University - Muncie, IN (1992 - 1999) | |
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