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Month: June 2018

Prison Diary Extract

This isn’t much, but a few readers may like it.  A couple of pages from my prison diary, dated 8/8, 8/10, and 8/13/2015: What can one say about the human condition and human suffering to make it tolerable and not meaningless?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Autobiography & Memoirs, Diary, Mature Adults Only, Philosophy, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment June 9, 2018 2 Minutes

Ingratitude

“You know, I do not understand why you are treating me like an an old shoe that’s tossed aside.  But let me clue you in on a few things!  I’m not one of your old shoes nor [?] am I anything you need to be tossing off or away!  That’s certainly not the way you are supposed to treat a friend!...

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Alan Carl Nicoll Autobiography & Memoirs, Miscellaneous Nonfiction, Poverty Leave a comment June 2, 2018 23 Minutes

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      • Finding Oliver
      • Ingratitude
      • Three Oldsters on Thanksgiving
      • I am Racist, a chapter of Kick Me
      • Thoughts About Seventeen Dead Children
      • Kick Me, Part 3: I am the World’s Worst Clown
    • Doom, Camus, and Breakfast
  • Fiction, Misc.
    • Hap: The Story So Far
    • Hap the Crystalwright: Part One
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Two
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Three
    • Enchanted House
    • NO-SEE-UM
    • Classical Music We’ll Never Hear
  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
    • Poetry Sketchbook
    • Amateur Haiku

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