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GroupsB.C. Musical Glass Discussion

About me"Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are a books-and-beer club in New England. We have been meeting since January 2008. The Coleridge quote above has been inspiring, and we liked B.C. Musical Glass because it sounds like a European football club. The club has no discernible rules, and books are chosen by consensus. A typical discussion among the members of B.C. Musical Glass ranges from books and beer to politics, music, movies, science, religion, recipes, our children, technology and frisbees. Sometimes a poem pops out. We enjoyed "Ichabod" from Robert Hershon’s collection HOW TO RIDE ON THE WOODLAWN EXPRESS:

Everyone's first name means
Beloved of the Lord
or Bearer of Glad Tidings
or Valiant in Battle

except Ichabod
which means The Glory
has Departed

and must be considered
the name for the future
along with The Liar is Thriving
Unbearable Cruelty and
The Shitheads are Running the Show

Also,
“God was at last to believe in man: good and strong, but good and strong are still two different people.”
—Wisława Szymborska, “The Turn of the Century”

and something about remembering persimmons.

About my libraryOur current selection is : INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino

Previous selections—

BLACK ELK SPEAKS by John G. Neihardt
PERFECTING SOUND FOREVER by Greg Milner
THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL by Daniel Stashower
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE by Bohumil Hrabal
SIX NOT-SO-EASY PIECES by Richard P. Feynman
MY NAME IS RED by Orhan Pamuk
SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer
MR. WILSON'S CABINET OF WONDER by Lawrence Weschler
THE BIZARRO STARTER KIT (Orange) edited by Carlton Mellick III, et. al.
PYRAMIDS by Terry Pratchett
IN PATAGONIA by Bruce Chatwin
A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by Simon Winchester
THE INVERTED WORLD by Christopher Priest
THE CRUELEST MILES by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury
HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING by David H. Wilson
THE RIVER OF DOUBT by Candace Millard
CONSIDER THE LOBSTER by David Foster Wallace
ARSLAN by M.J. Engh
CHARLATAN by Brock Pope
AMERICAN SHAOLIN by Matthew Polly

Locationwestern Massachusetts/northern Connecticut

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Member sinceMay 21, 2009