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Month: July 2020

A quote from “The Color Purple”

July 30, 2020 James K. Ribe

Celie and Sofia are talking about white people. (Page 105) “I just can’t understand it.” “What that?” I ast. “Why…

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“Profiles in Courage,” by John F. Kennedy

July 26, 2020 James K. Ribe

Jack Kennedy did not write this book. The whole world knows that. The prose is Ted Sorensen’s. The ideas are…

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Ulysses

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I started reading James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” in 1974, and finished in 2018. I will spend the rest of my…

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“The Color Purple”

July 18, 2020 James K. Ribe

I recently read “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker (1982). Here is my interpretation of the THEME, or basic message,…

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