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    Name:Diana Pharaoh Francis
    Website:Diana on the Web
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    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: Blood Winter, fourth in the Horngate Witches books



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    I'm a professor of English at the University of Montana Western.

    Quotes I like:

    "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,

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