tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4386672820056946997..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Jim Thompson: Justice in the Eye of the Storm ('to punish the heck out of people for bein' people")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43367936968789586542011-05-26T06:29:28.666-07:002011-05-26T06:29:28.666-07:00By the by, talking of Jim Thompson, God and religi...By the by, talking of Jim Thompson, God and religion... the great Bertrand Tavernier film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLqaslTiQA&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Coup de Torchon (1981)</a> is an adaptation of the novel from which the lines in this post are taken, Pop. 1280.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76547020741857427782011-05-26T06:15:58.888-07:002011-05-26T06:15:58.888-07:00Jim Thompson came from Tornado Alley and had a dad...Jim Thompson came from Tornado Alley and had a dad who made the Old Testament God of Punishment seem like Mary's Little Lamb in comparison.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11595367777991995722011-05-26T01:08:55.400-07:002011-05-26T01:08:55.400-07:00The ashtray has been upturned
but it don't cou...The ashtray has been upturned<br />but it don't count. Your lambs lie covered in ash.<br /><br />ps- fornicating is an excellent choice of word in these times of civic distressadityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68096345120506611682011-05-25T18:17:43.347-07:002011-05-25T18:17:43.347-07:00Jim Thompson and these photos are both discoveries...Jim Thompson and these photos are both discoveries for me. Thanks very much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49315489194021928222011-05-25T17:43:31.870-07:002011-05-25T17:43:31.870-07:00That sounds about right.
"recobl"That sounds about right.<br /><br />"recobl"Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33302737365386453782011-05-25T05:54:37.076-07:002011-05-25T05:54:37.076-07:00Tom,
What the heck (amazing clouds). . . .
5.25
...Tom,<br /><br />What the heck (amazing clouds). . . .<br /><br />5.25<br /><br />first grey light in cloud against still<br />shadowed ridge, robin calling on branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> that itself as such is after,<br /> but is grounded in it<br /> <br /> to inhabit, space or pattern,<br /> the surface of events<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />sunlit green of pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com