tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post115110118108023101..comments2023-07-14T04:28:49.111-06:00Comments on Now What: Marianne Hauser Changed TenseLance Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659209766706247259noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-89706193432338663712008-05-12T17:06:00.000-06:002008-05-12T17:06:00.000-06:00I too took Creative Writing and also a Short Story...I too took Creative Writing and also a Short Story Writing course with Professor Hauser at Queens College in 1971-72. I loved her. <BR/><BR/>Although my path led me to writing music rather than literature, she kindled a creative spirit in me and gave me confidence in the truth of my insights. I did not know of her passing till today when for the first time I Googled her. I am happy to see she was respected and appreciated.<BR/><BR/>I own a collection of Short Stories "A Lesson In Music," which I have read and re-read.<BR/><BR/>Marianne, thank you.<BR/>Fred De SenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-80718101036476280302007-05-21T13:44:00.000-06:002007-05-21T13:44:00.000-06:00Marianne was a professor at Queens College in New ...Marianne was a professor at Queens College in New York when I took her creative writing course back in 1972 or so. She was a tough old broad back then and I worked my ass off and pulled an A- which I cherish till today. I wish there were more like her today. Alas, she is of a dying breed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1151293958469753282006-06-25T21:52:00.000-06:002006-06-25T21:52:00.000-06:00this woman's writing made me less inclined to quit...this woman's writing made me less inclined to quit. i can't even get the words to say. talk about redefining the beautiful, wrestling language, staying present within being. <BR/><BR/>sob.blondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071230100404794724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1151251511681092182006-06-25T10:05:00.000-06:002006-06-25T10:05:00.000-06:00Marianne was a terrific writer and a terrific pers...Marianne was a terrific writer and a terrific person. I too remember when I was an MFA student working as an editorial assistant at the Fiction Collective and we were doing Ray's <I>Take It Or Leave It</I> and Marianne's <I>The Talking Room</I>. I still treasure my copies of both books.<BR/><BR/>My favorite of Marianne's books is <I>Prince Ishmael</I>. She will be missed.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04679352468526776274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1151200909978791992006-06-24T20:01:00.000-06:002006-06-24T20:01:00.000-06:00for federman:Three Friends by Chuang-tzu There wer...for federman:<BR/>Three Friends by Chuang-tzu <BR/><BR/>There were three friends<BR/>Discussing life.<BR/>One said:<BR/>"Can we live together<BR/>and know nothing of it?<BR/>Work together<BR/>and produce nothing?<BR/>Can people fly around in space<BR/>and still forget to exist<BR/>World without end?"<BR/><BR/>The three friends looked at each other<BR/>and burst out laughing.<BR/>They had no explanation.<BR/>Thus they were better friends than before.<BR/><BR/>Then one friend died.<BR/>Confucius sent a disciple<BR/>to help the other two<BR/>Chant the traditional funeral ritual.<BR/><BR/>His disciple found that one of them had composed a song.<BR/>While the other played the lute,<BR/>They sang:<BR/><BR/>"Hey, Sung Hu!<BR/>Where'd you go?<BR/>You have gone<BR/>Where you were before.<BR/>And we are here--<BR/>Damn it! We are here!"<BR/><BR/>Then the disciple of Confucius burst in on them and exclaimed:<BR/>"May I inquire where in the funeral ritual it allows you<BR/>to sing so irreverently in the presence of the departed?"<BR/><BR/>The two friends looked at each other, smiled, and said:<BR/>"Well trained in liturgy,<BR/>but the poor fellow doesn't understand life and death!"<BR/><BR/>Freely adapted from Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang-Tzu<BR/>(New York: New Directions, 1965), pp.54-55.<BR/> <BR/><BR/>http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/friend.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com