PHILOSOPHICAL RUMINATIONS

A COLLECTION OF PROSE POEMS AND DRAMATIC DIALOGUE

BY

BINA SHARIF

"The dark side of Dr. Johnson's Philosophy is said to have come from a

dread of of the,"Vacuity" of life.

He analyzes most human activity as a kind of running away from the

horrified awareness of inner Vacum, a need to fill the vacancies of attention

and lessen the tediousness of time with novelty and diversion." ?

"There is deep thoughtfulness in your prose...Keep doing what you are doing...

Keep writing and stop seeking approval from all the experts and non experts." ?

"I need nothing

I feel nothing

I desire nothing. Wole-Soyinka

"The Rambler,

The Adventurer,

The Idler,

Be all three of them." BS

"Sharp swing between enthusiasm

and disappointment." ?

INTERESTS

Drama

Politics

Poetry

Painting

Manners

Psychology

Strong opinions...

Two of these things are already of no interest

Politics

Strong Opinions

Personal strong Opinions stays...BS

"Above all else, he valued what he called,"Gusto"

"Energy of will"

"Red bloodedness"...Hazlitt

'Stress the feeling of art and life in your writing,

Importance of feelling is the most Important."...................BS

"In the past I wanted to confront friends and foe

with their ignorance and prejudices.

My feelings never seemed settled, but no more...

People and their Ignorance and Prejudices lost meaning,

and I lost interest in all of them 

and my feeling for such a 

"Fake" 'Freedom and Democracy."

BS

"A writer should have dialogue with the reader

 and conversational rapport.

Prose should be pulsing, energetic, alive." ?

'MY IRRITABLENESS."

The rambler