Bill BurkettAlmost everyone who has visited the Bahamas will tell you the same thing about my people; Bahamians…— Virgil Henry Storr Journal of Caribbean Literatures1d ago1d ago
Bill BurkettChapter 3: FloridaThe old man retired from the fire department. He sold our house to a chiropractor who was going to turn it into an office on a street whose…6d ago6d ago
Bill BurkettChapter 37: Fall from graceFall from grace: to lose favor, be discredited; in theology, relapse into sin.Oct 21Oct 21
Bill BurkettNever, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles…Chapter 19: Living with crazyOct 13Oct 13
Bill BurkettPrecursor to “A Bit of the Strange”“An unexamined life is not worth living” from Plato’s recollection of the speech Socrates gave at his trial…There would be no need to…Oct 2Oct 2
Bill BurkettIntermezzo, noun: a short connecting instrumental movement in an opera or other musical work.Chapter 15: Red-wing intermezzoSep 26Sep 26
Bill BurkettI Have Measured Out My Life in… Cowboy HatsApologies to J. Alfred Pruifrock, who famously measured his life with a different device:Sep 23Sep 23
Bill BurkettChapter 14: A woman of a certain IQAmong other duties as assigned — of which liquor-board members always found plenty for me — I was sent to represent them on a committee…Sep 21Sep 21
Bill BurkettI think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married.— Yves MontandSep 20Sep 20