After seeing the biographical drama film, A Beautiful Mind , twice: on 15 October 2013 and 12 September 2015, respectively, I put the following sequence of three pieces of prose and poetry together. I stay on the theme, the thread theme, of mental health. -Ron Price, Australia ----------------------...

Thanks, Chris.....I won't promise....life being the way it is at this end, but thanks for your encouragement.-Ron

Thanks, Chris, for your words of appreciation. With all your 1500 posts here at booktalk.org you should be able to make several books from your contributions, like collections of letters in days gone by.-Ron Price, Tasmania

I am placing the following post in this sub-section of booktalk.org because E.L. Doctorow, who passed away two weeks ago, wrote several books of historical fiction. His books gave many, including President Obama, a greater appreciation of American history.-Ron Price, Australia ----------------------...

JOHN MALKOVICH Part 1: Being John Malkovich was an American dramedy fantasy which opened in October 1999 just as I was retiring after a 50 year student and employment life, a career of 32 years as a teacher, and another 18 as a student. In October 1999 I was settling into a little town by the sea, a...

On hearing of the passing of Malcolm Frazer in the morning of 20/3/'15, I revised a prose-poetic piece I had originally written on hearing of the passing of Gough Whitlam on 21/10/'14. The following revised piece of writing is somewhat long, too long for those of the Facebook-Twitter generation who ...

My poetry has come to be defined by some things, some topics, to such an extent that it is simply unimaginable to contextualize my total oeuvre without recognizing the significance, the importance, of these subjects; the essence of my poetry is so much associated with this typical, prototypical, sub...

I enjoyed your post, DWill. As you say, "it isn't okay if a pedophile feels comfortable in his own skin, or if a sociopath is at peace with himself. The scariest aspect of these types of personalities is that they often are fairly comfortable with their behavior and thinking." Indeed, DWil...

CRIMINAL MINDS Part 1: Criminal Minds is an American police-procedural television program that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. That date was at the beginning of the spring season in Australia where I have lived now for 44 years after growing-up in Canada until the age of 27. Ten years after the...

ALICE IN WONDERLAND Part 1: The Secret World of Lewis Carroll was televised on ABCTV on 28/4/'15(8:30 to 9:30 p.m.). For fans of both literature and scandal The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (BBCTwo) was a wonderfully engaging portrait which showed both the scandalous and the imaginative side of Car...