tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24573672126472616022024-03-08T03:40:50.915-08:00WRITERS' CRAMPHALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-54749546376101612862013-10-01T10:31:00.003-07:002013-10-01T10:31:57.433-07:00SALINGER: 'The Official book of the Acclaimed Documentary Film DAVID SHIELDS & SHANE SALERNO I read about this book and the forthcoming movie project on JD SALINGER and of the 'revelations' and information that had not been available about him and his life and works. Having read many of Salinger's works and a few books on his life and work and from my own meager experience as a writer since fifth grade, I never believed the claim that he had stopped writing and that there was nothing more of his to be published. Writers usually stop writing when they are dead and not before unless their works are confiscated and they are imprisoned.<br />
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Therefore it is no surprise to me that manuscripts of his exist and this book reveals that fifty years after his death some will be published and not before. However, I wonder if, in today's climate, of internet and e-books, if his work will be read even if published and who will be able to relate to any of it, given the mentality of the masses today?<br />
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This present book is interesting and intriguing and also suffers from a few things, some of which is obvious: people saying or talking or writing about things they do now really know anything about, but usually 'hearsay', 'innuendo', 'assumptions', 'armchair psychology', and the 'phoniness' that Salinger so assiduously abhorred and despised.<br />
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One glaring mistake is the mistaking the CONNECTICUT RIVER for the DELAWARE RIVER and also the obvious intellectual consideration of CORNISH, NEW HAMSPHIRE, a town in which I also have lived and appreciated, and I can understand why Salinger chose that place and hope to discuss this a bit further than I previously have.<br />
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WELL, from this book I learned that SALINGER & HITLER had something in common: THEY BOTH LACKED ONE TESTICLE! Apparently, from what I have read, Hitler may have lacked one testicle or it had never descended and Salinger had only one testicle that descended. Both Salinger and Hitler had somewhat an interest in occultism,witchcraft and mediumship/telepathy etc. They both did a bit of 'body-building' in Hitler's case using cables or stretchers and Charles Atlas courses in Salinger's.<br />
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I wonder if in the files of the CHARLES ATLAS company, which still exists, there might be some records or photos even of SALINGER or letters? It would be interesting to uncover his 'diploma' from Charles Atlas. I still have mine and I also have the books on sex that came with the course, which, from reading the book on SALINGER, I assume mention of the 'Atlas Books' refers to these, a small library of paper backs on such topics. I will find mine which are in storage and post them sometime on line for all to see.<br />
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The compilers and interviewers of this book, Shields and Salerno have divided up the book, which threatens to become the 'definitive work or bio on Salinger' thus far, into FOUR PARTS BASED ON HINDU CLASSIFICATION OF VEDANTIC LISTINGS.<br />
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To discuss this in any meaningful, coherent way requires more time and space that what was devoted to this in the actual book especially in view of the conjecture and value judgments made by the compilers and also the contributors whose understanding of why someone would study or immerse themselves into such 'philosophy', 'religion' etc is a mystery and also conclude it was a disaster for his literary endeavors. <br />
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But if the compilers of this book had looked a little deeper into Cornish history and the Dingleton Hill area in which SALINGER lived, they might have found someone near by who also became involved with a 'mystic' by the name of G. I GURDJIEFF. This man was HERBERT D. CROLY, Founder or one of the Founders of the NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE who was, like Salinger, friends with JUDGE LEARNED HAND who lived in Cornish also in the same area. Many who admired Croly thought that his interest in GURDJIEFF was also a 'distraction' and 'waste of his talents'. CROLY & HIS WIFE are buried in PLAINFIELD, NH which nearby.<br />
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As for RAMAKRISHNA & VIVIKENANDA, many people in science, such as EDISON, BURBANK, FORD, TESLA had read their works, among others in that area.<br />
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ZEN or ZEN BUDDHISM is an offshoot of MAHAYANA BUDDHISM that was carried into China from India by various monks and also into TIBET and nearby areas and eventually to JAPAN where the DHYANA BECAME ZEN and CHAN IN CHINA. Basically, these terms are just ways to pronounce in local languages the Sanskrit word DHYANA. Zen also made its way to Mongolia and other areas.<br />
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ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT has had much discussion in the West, starting academically in most instances, and affecting people in various ways, from BUSHIDO ADVOCATES to BEATNIKS and eventually to some LSD STIMULATED HIPPIES, among other things. <br />
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The abstract, intellectual aspects of ZEN along with its seductive koans and 'harsh' practices have made it a form of meditation that is free from the emotional/devotional aspects of many YOGA SYSTEMS as has VEDANTA and the other six or so schools of HINDU PHILOSOPHY. <br />
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To undertand why SALINGER undertook to embrace ZEN & VEDANTA as well as YOGA/TANTRA, one has to delve a bit more than the compilers of this work and their informants and interviewees have done as far as I can tell. Their comments on all this appear to me to be highly superficial and the usual stuff.<br />
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NEVERTHELESS, this book has done a great service in that THE INVASION OF NORMANDY ON D-DAY and the BATTLE OF THE BULGE as well as other aspects of the conquest of Germany has been made much clearer than previously, save to those who fought and suffered and survived during WWII. <br />
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For one thing, it has made much clearer the life of my father who fought in that D-Day invasion and his behavior over the years from that time as well as that of other relative who fought in both War theaters, Pacific and European. <br />
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The book also shows photos that have never been shown before and where SALINGER went and what he experienced. Moreover, he was in the CIC, COUNTER INTELLIGENCE CORPS and his work in this can now be more fully known as can some of that the OSS did.<br />
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His military work and background also strengthens and makes more clearer than ever his longing for privacy rather than 'letting it all hang out' in self-serving ways as some have done or might do. Having known some persons who have done similar work, I can understand and appreciate their reservations and reluctance to discuss what they did and saw and experienced with persons who have or had absolutely no understanding or real idea about war and death and destruction!<br />
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I am still going over the book and reading/re-reading sections and looking at the photos and appreciating SALINGER more than I have in the past.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-14082789577727669702012-10-05T09:39:00.006-07:002012-10-05T09:39:53.157-07:00THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELI've sat down thousands of times to write 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL' but now I stand up to live 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL'!HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-17798613277367860342011-05-24T14:32:00.000-07:002011-05-24T14:47:25.845-07:00'SONNY' SALINGERIn the recent biography titled, J.D. SALINGER, A LIFE by Kenneth Slawenski, I read that from the time he was born and ever afterwards, his parents called him,'SONNY', one thing that I have in common with him as my parents and my grandparents and all my friends all called me 'SONNY'.......and like the late JD Salinger, I lived in Cornish and went to school there as well....... I also used to visit NAP'S SODA FOUNTAIN, especially after the movies there in Windsor,Vermont, but at that time JD Salinger had not moved into to town...bu;t when he did he moved to DINGLETON HILL not far from where my grandfather and his grandparents and some of his friends lived before JD Salinger was born....... Crossing the road from Windsor that cuts across the entrance to Dingleton Hill to the covered bridge near Mill Road is Comings Cemetary where some of my ancestors are buried and where I plan, if all goes well, to be buried...... JD Salinger trained at Fort Dix, where I also received my basic training, and then he was assigned to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey to the Signal Corps, and so was I but many years after WWII of course....... According to the biographer in this book mentioned, Salinger had a preoccupation with death for a multitude of reasons but he was apparently concerned the most with the 'arbitrary nature of death' which means that anyone can die anytime, anyplace, and without any warning or meaning or significance to their deaths...... In later years, Salinger apparentnly became interested in 'organic' farming, herbs, 'homegrown' veggies and fruits and other things now considered 'trendy' and 'new age' etc. and some hail him as a prophet or simply ahead of his time, despite his 'sophisticated' manner and lifestyle and craft.....which seems,when examined, a 'facade'.....an image he presented to the world, which others have written books about..... So why the back woods of Cornish and solitude of rural life? Like Salinger, I long for silent hills and quiet woods with only babbling brooks for conversations and the song<br />cries of birds, the cawing of crows, the mooing of cows,etc. butting in for their 'say' about things.....and I sort of think he felt perhaps a bit the same way..........but more intensely than I do......HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-28928368738693405522011-02-04T08:21:00.000-08:002011-02-04T08:33:00.805-08:00JD SALINGER'S LAST SUPPERThe late JD Salinger has been in the news lately and interest in him continues and will continue for many, many years, undoubtedly... Contrary to popular belief and legend about 'JD" or "JERRY' as some called him in attempts to seem familiar with him, he was not the complete hermit-recluse-anchorite-ascetic many want to make him out to have been but a man who,in some respects, followed the WAY OF THE HOUSEHOLDER.... The subject of 'his Last Supper'(no relation to the more famous, LAST SUPPER of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS) was his last supper consisting of foods he usually consumed at CHURCH SUPPERS in HARTLAND,VERMONT at the CONREGATIONAL CHURCH known better as 'the red brick church' and which enjoys, as do nearly all such affairs in both New Hampshire and in Vermont a devoted following of eaters of all ages and denominations....especially nowadays in hard economic times....where a good hearty, sometimes all you can eat portions are served up...so that everyone comes away fully satisfied...... Confined and unable to attend the supper before his demise, JD'S wife drove to Hartland and got a meal for him to eat at home.....which was his very last 'church supper' the fare and pie he liked to eat unquestionably........HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-51881790182473064912010-02-26T10:19:00.000-08:002010-02-26T10:19:16.996-08:00Live Free or Undead<a href="http://livefreeorundead.com/">Live Free or Undead</a>: I am placing this here so viewers can enter this contest and this page has all the information one needs to do so. I suggest that if you decide to write something for this anthology you do so at once as it ends in March. In the meantime, I hope to submit my own entry into this.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-38402886314225057572010-02-11T12:39:00.000-08:002010-02-11T12:46:28.791-08:00ANOTHER 'JDS' TIDBITInsearching my memory, I recalled hearing this 'tidbit' from someone, possibly my late friend and classmate and fellow 'TRUTH SEEKER', Bob H. who was from Cornish and lived for a time in CORNISH FLAT or it may have been something I read in a column about Cornish,etc. ANYWAY, it seems that if one wanted to know what interested SALINGER in literature, books, special topics, all one had to do was find out what books he had donated to the CORNISH LIBRARY and/or gave them for their raising of funds through book donations. What caught my attention was the subject of WITCHCRAFT that seemed to be major contribution of his books at that particular time. What else he donated or contributed besides that topic I do not know. Luckily, library information is confidential and even the government's attempts to access and scrutinize such information has been thwarted thus far, although attempts to do so and have a 'national database' is still going on, since the CIA,FBI,HOMELAND SEC,etc. all want to know what everyone is reading these days and possibly also wanting to know what books one orders on line, reads on line, or buys in books stores,etc.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-42840315955515139922010-02-09T07:50:00.000-08:002010-02-09T08:15:55.258-08:00J.D. SALINGER CONTINUEDA number of 'JDS' sightings and encounters by various Twin State Valley residents and former residents have been appearing since his death in some of the 'local' papers. Many of these accounts subscribe to 'the nice man'theory and add more to the image he may have wanted to project as 'THE RECLUSE' which can only remind one of the Tarot Card, 'THE HERMIT'. The ENIGMA OF 'JDS' is not his quest for privacy on his own terms, as if it were a highly desirable state of reclusiveness/exclusiveness, silence, penance, isolation, etc. akin to 'seeking some kind of HOLY GRAIL' but the fact alone, for one whose reputation for enjoying writing, for literary efforts,etc. as some claim, he never allowed or permitted any newer writings to be published after a certain date and never exposed any further writings to the scrutiny of the public eye, some thing that fascinates andirritates those who really and truly desired further stories and novels from him as well as the vast hordes of other literary groups, such as critics and professors of literature. From my very limited perspective on this ENIGMA, I think it might well be a most simple fact that has escaped nearly everyone, especially those who believe in continued 'literary output' or 'literary success',etc. My personal contention is this: he did not need or want to publish what he wrote in his lifetime later on because he had not real financial need to do so and that if he did publish again, the IRS and the GOVERNMENT would step in,much like 'Robin Hood' and garnish his income,etc. Really creative writers, poets, artists, sculptors, actors, and playwrights,etc. always face ' FINE ON THEIR CREATIVITY & PRODUCTIONS' in the form of taxation which in some cases would nothing for them or their fans and followers, except fill the coffers of government and lead in some cases to various legal and tax problems among other things. In other words, it would simply not pay to publish anything further for the reasons that one would not receive the 'fruits of one's own labor' but give the greatest portion of it to the Federal Government,etc. Furthermore, by simplifying his life and dispensing with a large battery of agents, 'experts', CPAs, attornies/lawyers, doctors,etc. saved himself a great hassle and expense that usually results from such. Rather than actually ending up writing for nothing except for his sheer personal enjoyment and satisfaction(if any) and face huge tax burdens, he preferred simply not to publish,knowing in his case he was not likely to 'perish' as far as his place in 'AMERICAN LITERATURE' is concerned. 'JDS',for whatever literary faults examiners of his work have annalyzed, detected, and exposed, never really fell into the temptation, to which many genre writers and authors fall, by cranking out or have 'ghost' written continued stories and novels since,THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING' probably and possibly Holden Caufield's beyond doubt,can still be heard(for those who have ears to listen) and read by all.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-3684840104967654282010-01-29T08:54:00.000-08:002010-01-29T09:24:31.004-08:00JD SALINGER DIES AT AGE 91!JD, 'JERRY' SALINGER, author of the 'famous & infamous' novel, CATCHER IN THE RYE, passed away at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire where he has lived in near isolation since the early 1950's, the time when I was living in Cornish and then went to high school at Stevens High School in Claremont,NH, after moving somewhat from Cornish with my grandparents to Pine Grove Street. Over the years, many 'sightings' of Salinger took place with the frequency of UFO sightings once prevalent and several books on and about Salinger appeared, sometimes just critically assessing his writings and publications or his life in general. After 'granting' an interview with a high school girl at Windsor High School in nearby Windsor,Vermont, JD did not grant any more interviews apparently, probably because of the 'publicity' he received nationally as a result. LIFE MAGAZINE , if I am not mistaken, issued a few issues with articles,etc. on him. Some people do not realize that the major character of 'CATCHER' appeared as a character in a short story before the publication of his major work and probably only a few die-hard devotees have read all of collected works or noticed that Salinger was interested in Zen and related topics and perhaps adopted/adapted some of the Zen practices, as he interpreted them, into his actual life. That he spent time over the years writing, according to several seemingly credible sources, but never published anything, seems to bear out this 'Zenist' approach,similar, in my estimation, to the many monks, calligraphers,etc. that have undergone this sort of 'discipline'. In some respects, his later life, literary or otherwise, if it can be called such, is like a 'tea ceremony',but I shall leave that speculation to others to carry further if they wish. As far as I know I never met or saw Salinger but one friend of mine, now deceased, a Cornish resident for much of his life, and also a high school classmate and member of my 'special' group,and also interested enough to get me to accompany him and another friend, to some Gurdjieff meeting/activity in Lempster, New Hampshire,back in the 80's. My friend, Bob H., used to see him on the streets of Windsor where he worked at the time for the Postal Service. My friend said he used to say hello to Salinger,etc. and sometimes saw him in Cornish. When a student in college I took a course in ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY and for one of the projects to be done, a written report, I did mine on THE CATCHER without actually having read the book which everyone at the time was raving about. I had the attitude which I still have somewhat today, sort of a snobbish affair, not to read 'bestsellers' and 'hot- off- the- presses' books,etc. and the same for viewing movies,etc. these days. I later read CATCHER some years later and also devoured the other things by Salinger I could find. For my report, based mainly on the jacket descriptions, and a quick shuffle through the pages of the book, I received an A + which tells you somewhat the state of academia and myself at the time. I still have the other paper. In 1962, while teaching in a small,private boys' school in Connecticut, I had a student(and so did other teachers so- to- speak, who came from Westport, Connecticut, the place listed as the residance of JD Salinger on the jacket covers of his hard backs(along with the same generic photo,etc. and who claimed to personally know JD Salinger to the extent he conned or convinced even the psychiatrists and school director into thinking this 'delusion' to be true,and then it happened: LIFE put out another issue or some magazine did, telling of Salinger being a recluse in Cornish and this student knew I had lived in Cornish, NH(I took another student from the school there to stay at my Aunt's cabin on the old Farm property there one time in 1962-63) and wondeered why I had not made the acquaintance of JD Salinger. He seemed slightly 'overwhelmed' and in 'awe' at this: that I could ignore JS Salinger. I then read some of the critical books on Salinger at that time. Saligner apparently was a sort of 'entertainer' pn a cruise line, spent time in Europe and also in the Army, and had a movie made from one of his works. Salinger will always have a certain appeal to many, as he was a fascinating,illusive,perhaps shy, person, who had the reputation of wanting 'privacy' almost a masculine counterpart of Greta Garbo. That he worked hard on 'the myth of JD Salinger' and let the popular imaginations of the public go to work and polish, seems somewaht obvious, but I should point out that Salinger is not the first or only person to seek 'solace and quiet' in the hills of Cornish. There have been a few others, many with talent and sensitivity and the like that will always characterize the creator of Hold Caulfield, a sort of forerunner of the BEAT GENERATION.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-12415572706171706872009-11-04T12:03:00.001-08:002009-11-04T12:15:43.703-08:00MY BOOKS THAT NEVER GOT PUBLISHEDOver the years I have had at least three book or writing projects suggested, asked for, etc. by people who could print and publish them that I was fortunate to encounter. Some of them did publish a few articles of mine but when it came to books some other things intervened and diverted things, so nothing came of them except some manuscripts of a sort and some other items along the same way. I was asked by a national educational journal in another country to compile or write a book with this sort of title,A FRIENDLY FOREIGNER. My book and another book by a more prominent contributor to the JOURNAL never got anywhere, although his was actually published before mine and did not sell,etc. so the project to publish educational books was abandoned. Another book project in that same country by a different group of friends and associates, also educaitonal in scope, dealt with a mathematics text book which for various reasons was not published as I had envisioned and left me standing on the corner, in the wind and sun and rain, so to speak, but which proved to be a lesson of importance. The third 'GREAT PROJECT' when I was in that same country, came from a publisher in the US who took my materials and pictures,etc. and was to publish such but then decided not to and to go out of business and sell the company and also the magazine he had established and published and edited and it can still be found on the stands these days, even though he is passed away. Another US Publisher in the same field but with some different orientations wanted me to do a book for him, or rather update and improve a 'special course' he had printed and sold around the world for years,but this did not materialize. I could also mention two or three other 'writing projects' envisioned and partially accepted by some editors/publishers that also were returned to me for different reasons. One of them was that the actual publisher of the periodical became extremely irate when I sort of 'stepped on his toes' in some statements I made to the editor that was looking at my stuff. My friends had all recommended me to the mag(s). Eventually, the mags were discontinued by the real owner of all them and he returned to his first type of magazine love. Many of them are perhaps still on the stands now.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-72769297587510032082009-11-04T11:55:00.000-08:002009-11-04T12:02:59.505-08:00MY WRITING CAREER BEGAN INSeveral have asked me about my 'writings' and why I am unpublished for the most part,etc. I began my 'writing' career in around the 5th grade at the South Cornish One-<br />Room School that, at that time, handled grades 1-4. My first 'published writings' came into being then when MRS. SMITH(about whom I plan to say more about in other blogs) set up what is known as a 'hectograph', a device now rendered obsolete by various copying devices, scanners, printers,etc. and other electronic media,etc. Printing on a hectograph required several steps and some materials. I shall not go into the full details of this process, now long forgotten by most classroom teachers of this day and age, now the 21st Century. Encouraged to write stories and things in class(all students were) some of mine, based in part of the comicstrip, TINY TIM & also THE LITTLE PEOPLE, were 'published' in the small school paper that our school created under Mrs. Smith. Although at one time, I had most of the copies done on the hectograph, they vanished later, when perhaps some relatives,etc. of mine disposed of them as of little or no significance to the literary world along with other things of mine of a like nature.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-74764884411857101752009-09-08T10:57:00.000-07:002009-09-08T11:03:17.398-07:00JACK KEROUAC & L. RON HUBBARDTwo things that Jack K. and L. Ron had in common was their special typing methods: Both used long rolls of paper to type at their leisure and crank-out speed, their manuscripts. L. Ron had so many ideas and plots for his fiction, not to mention his other writings, that he had to 'speed-up' something that all of us need to do as we 'age','grow older' etc. rather than slow down and take life easy. This latter view and belief is fine for young people who have all the time in the world. Both Jack K. and L. Ron knew they had little time to accomplish all they wanted or had set out to do. Jack K. had so many thoughts that using the standard,single sheet of paper on the mechanical typewriters of the time(which I still prefer over the new computer types) took too much time and led to loss of thought not to mention rhythm!HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-28530110043350703232009-08-28T14:22:00.001-07:002009-08-28T14:24:38.364-07:00THE DIFFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYING SOMETHING & SPEAKING SOMETHINGEverything I write nowadays is so indefomote. extremely vague, for most people who any of it. To SPEAK is not to SAY. Do you know the exact difference between saying something and speaking something?HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-40535101376552744262009-08-27T14:57:00.000-07:002009-08-27T15:03:00.658-07:00AUTHORSHIP IS DIFFERENT FROM AUTHORITY!Even if people author things,that is, claim copyrights and the like, they do NOT always possess, or even if they claim they do, AUTHORITY for what they have written! AUTHORITY of and for writings is not the same as AUTHORSHIP! Thus, you can be an authority without having written a thing! Even if you have written on a subject, you may not be an actual authority. Yet, if you find writings, such as these blogs, authoritative in tone, scope, nature, theme, thesis, and subject, then who is the author? If you make any of these ideas your own, under the best possible circumstances are you an authority and are you, thereby, authorized to author them?HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-77835271143502768882009-08-11T12:28:00.001-07:002009-08-11T12:32:15.824-07:00JDS or J.D.S.NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE has an interesting article entitled,'SEEKING SALINGER' by Kevin Flynn and some interesting illustrations by Marc Sutherland, plus a 'EXTRA! EXTRA! by Edward Jackson Bennett. I suggest that fans of Salinger purchase the issue and also to subscribe to the magazine. They can contact the editor at <a href="mailto:editor@nhmagazine.com">editor@nhmagazine.com</a> via e-mail. For the rest of this topic, please go to YANKEE BOYHOOD, another blog.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-5557980382280440722009-07-21T12:57:00.000-07:002009-07-21T13:01:20.613-07:00UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINEMy letter to the Editor of UNH MAGAZINE was published in the SPRING 2009 issue pp. 4- 21-38 in the section LETTERS TO THE EDITOR under the topic heading: DEBATING DAGGETT CONTINUES.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-79172451691685002912009-07-21T11:13:00.000-07:002009-07-21T11:15:56.804-07:00PASS IN REVIEWThis topic will deal specifically with book reviews of authors whom I have been privileged to meet and whose autographed books are in my possession at present. Some of them are martial artists as is to be expected but there are other areas involved. Reviews of these books will follow when time permits.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-78989823178198773542009-07-07T11:06:00.000-07:002009-07-07T11:14:42.883-07:00MARTIAL ARTS MAGAZINESPrior to the publication of BLACK BELT MAGAZINE only a few publications existed that could actually be termed martial arts magazines. Prior to BB( as it is often called) the first US magazine that dealt with martial arts was JUDO DIGEST and had early karate, jiu-jitsu, kendo,etc. articles and photos but it soon ceased publication after around 6-7 issues. I was a subscriber and still have all of them. I had planned to donate them to the HAWAII KARATE MUSEUM and may still do so some day. BLACK BELT MAGAZINE was the recipient of several letters to the editors/publishers from me over a period of years. My name has been mentioned in their archival reprints of the notable features,items, and covers of the old issues, which the new owners had two ORIGINAL AND VALUABLE sets ,ONE OF WHICH THEY SACRIFICED for placing on the internet! The entire set was torn apart and sliced up to do this as the process is not like actual printing or archiving otherwise. To set the record straight, I have had only ONE ARTICLE published by Black Belt, but I do have several rejection slips or letters from them,one of which is perhaps the more interesting of all of them. It was a rejection of an article of mine by the owner/publisher at the time,signed by him, of an article on CHINESE YOGA, which he felt had not place in a martial arts magazine. NOW, just look at the numerous Qi Gong, Yoga, etc. articles in martial arts magazines but in magazines devoted entirely to such!HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-65673820661704511512009-07-07T10:59:00.000-07:002009-07-07T11:06:17.164-07:00LISTING OF MY MARTIAL ARTS ARTICLESI plan to make a grand list of my articles that have been published over the years in various magazines and also to make a list of publications where my 'LETTERS TO EDITORS' have appeared, knowing full well, that many of them are lost and incomplete listings may well be impossible. I have written a number of articles that are not on martial arts and I was at one time better known as a writer in the Philippines than in the US. So any of you interested in all these details on my literary excursions and efforts(minimal as they have been fiction-wise) please bear with me and be most patient. I have to say also that many of my thoughts, plots, and 'real' writings are on scraps of paper in the form of notes, ramblings, and rantings, and so forth, all of which I can never really sort out or sift through unless I become a millionaire(unlikely now) and have the time and patience and energy to compile and make coherent. So I hope you who may read this, and get this far, will accept this literary confession of mine in good faith and good humor.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-75194852602864790882009-06-30T08:38:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:39:31.119-07:00SOONIPI MAGAZINESOONIPI MAGAZINE is an excellent publication. E-mail them at <a href="mailto:soonipi.nh@comcast.net">soonipi.nh@comcast.net</a> Will have more to say on this later.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-37646182541566355652009-06-30T08:36:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:37:54.029-07:00THE COMPLETE HOOTThis paper can be seen at <a href="http://www.thecompltehoot.net/">www.thecompltehoot.net</a> and the e-mail address is the <a href="mailto:completehoot@comcast.net">completehoot@comcast.net</a> Will have more to say about this paper.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-41981923749791426312009-06-03T07:38:00.000-07:002009-06-03T07:41:40.523-07:00WRITERS I HAVE METOver the years I have met a few writers of both fiction and non-fiction,with the latter being more focused in martial arts than other subjects, but I hope to list the writers/authors and their specific books, some of which they have kindly autographed for me. As of now, I have a bit of work to do to accomplish this task. It is quite likely that any of you reading this, if you can, will know any of these writers or their books.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2457367212647261602.post-36444848399078076962009-05-26T12:17:00.000-07:002009-05-26T12:20:04.154-07:00WRITERS' CRAMPAUTHORS,WRITERS, COLUMNISTS,POETS, PLAYWRIGHTS,EDITORS, PUBLISHERS,ETC.HALFORD E. JONEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12168580062742457670noreply@blogger.com0