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	A Green and Ancient Light 4.08 avg rating — 1,710 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country Under Heaven 4.17 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragonfly 3.86 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Star Shard 4.09 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Gate 15 - Spring 2011 by John O'Neill (Editor), Vaughn Heppner (Contributor), Harry Connolly (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew V. McFeaters (Editor) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bone Man by Frederic S. Durbin (Goodreads Author), Daniel Williams (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew V. McFeaters (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs of Summerdark by Frederic S. Durbin (Goodreads Author), Mrs. Kana Ohno (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Pilgrimage to the Wade Center

I was astonished to learn of a great treasure that can be found right here on American soil in an attractive but quiet and unassuming building at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. My wife and I visited the place on July 7, 2023–the annual Star Festival of Tanabata in Japan.

The Marion E. Wade Center is chiefly a research facility dedicated to the work of seven writers and thinkers: J. R. R. Tol

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The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century

by Richard Polt

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“To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.”
― Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light

tags: coming-of-age

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“The older I become, the more I understand Mr. Girandole's look of sadness and what he must have been thinking then. These games with tangerine peels... the times of little wide-eyed girls arriving on the terrace, and boys with notebooks... none of it lasted for more than a breath. Time never turned backward. Summer gave way to winter, and summer came again, and year by year, the vines lengthened, and the sharp detail faded from the statues- scales becoming ripples, passion becoming tranquility. Each time Mr. Girandole saw Grandmother, he looked at her like we all ought to look at one another, every time.”
― Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light

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“One person, I’d come to understand, was actually many people—people of different ages, people who lived in different surroundings; these people all had the same name and knew something of each other, but they lived entirely separate lives.”
― Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light

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Frederic’s Quotes

“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: writing, writing-craft

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“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”
― Marianne Moore

tags: writing

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“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

tags: effort, perseverance

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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

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“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations