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W.S. Culpepper

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Born

in New Orleans, LA, The United States

Website

http://www.TheReplacementSon.com

Genre

Literary Fiction, Southern Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

JL Borges, Elmore Leonard, George Orwell, Ferrol Sams, Charles Dickens ...more

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March 2013

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W. S. Culpepper is a retired physician living in Louisville, KY. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, he lived and worked in New Orleans, LA, the exotic, dysfunctional, much-battered, but beloved city where he was born and raised.
Dr. Culpepper has written poetry since his undergraduate years at the University of Virginia where he was an Echols Scholar in English literature. After practicing and teaching pediatric cardiology for over twenty-five years, he decided to focus on his writing and began exploring Japanese minimalist verse forms. His English haiku has appeared in the Tokyo Edition of the Mainichi Daily News, The International Newspaper of Japan, beginning in 2001. As a member of the Haiku Society of America, he produced a collection of less ...more

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Khashoggi and Thomas Becket

MbS and his Saudi cronies clearly misread most of Western Lit in addition to all of Western Civ while dallying about at Oxford and Cambridge. Not only did they get blindsided by the shitstorm that has tumbled down after what was supposed to be just another jiffy hit by the Palace Removal Services, but somewhere along the way they completely missed the point of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Read more of this blog post »

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The Replacement Son

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W.S.’s Quotes

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second series

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“No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

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