Starlings chatter curses Then steal the food of others All in fun and games. -RACHEL CRARY book list KATIE LYONS With the vast amount of fiction available at present, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish what is valuable reading. Lists of the classics and other established works are readily available, but it is more difficult to find suggestions for contemporary reading. Dr. LaVon Carroll has consented to share a list of contemporary readings which might serve as a guide for the student. It is as follows: The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, Jesse Hill Ford Herzog, Saul Bellow A Proper Marriage, Doris Lissing The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles Rabbit Run, John Updike A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Horses Mouth, Joyce Cary Brighton Rock, Graham Greene Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis Steppenwoif, Herman Hesse Le Desert a'Amour, Francoi Mauriac The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison A Day in the Life of Denise Ivanov, Solsinitzen The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell 12 the roseness principle To understand the moonness roseness, Roseness Principle discoveringness too youness of you, trust not to learn by structures; trust not to: calyx corolla filament anther, the stamen pistil and perianth, my loved one. For, no, these are the gift the rose gives a rose the white white, crimson cerise, June yellow or other... perfect rose's body. Though I take this rose for Science, lay it on the counter now I start to sense how deeply dismembering analysis leaves a stack of pieces (This is not the Rose. Blood and feathers are not a bird.), and cannot do that unroseness thinking because a rose is. Here is a rose and a room: roseness, roomness, tableness of the table, wall, sky, man of the man, blue blue, I in I, Thou Thou. There is Entity, loved one, which is The Roseness Principle because a rose is. I give you this song to place behind things, give this rose to know rose moon, petals and thorns, leaf upon leaves, and rising white bird; I touch you with my hand. The Rose is... The Rose is... The Rose is... Singing, therefore, to know: dance in the arms of the moon, sleep in the night with roseness petals of perfect rose's Essence placed upon the lids of your eyes, watch roses grow, fly, because a rose is; a rose is. -WELDON CHAMPNEYS 13