#robert payne

[hoosegowcayuse]

lethal company update spoke to me like the green goblin mask so now I have to draw more of my dear clay surgeon.

ok now I have to go take a nap

[dabiconcordia]

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!” ― Roman Payne

[oldsoulsarah]

She was shy, hated making new friends, showed no interest in social movements, rarely glanced at a newspaper, and was strangely ill-prepared for her new life of continuous.

Robert Payne, The Great Garbo, originally published c. 1976.

[theogonyofbeauty]

Tiresias Warning Odysseus About the Future. By Robert Payne.

[earthlings1997]

Payne Family of Five Found Dead in Indiana Home with Gunshot Wounds

A tragic incident unfolded in Lake Station, where a Family of Five Found Dead in Indiana Home from apparent gunshot wounds. The victims included 27-year-old Briana Payne and her three young daughters—7-year-old Aurorah, 6-year-old Ava, and 4-year-old Alayna. The father of the children, 31-year-old Robert Payne, was also found deceased, with authorities determining his death as a suicide. This…

Payne Family of Five Found Dead in Indiana Home with Gunshot Wounds

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free eBook] Chinese Diaries: 1941-1946 by Robert Payne [China Expat Travelogue & War History Memoir]

Chinese Diaries: 1941-1946 by the late US-resident British expat author Robert Payne, a notable mid-20th century historian, novelist, English literature professor, and biographer who had actually met and conversed with a number of his famous historical subjects, including Hitler and Mao Zedong, is a memoir cum travelogue, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.

This was originally published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1945 and 1947 in two volumes as Forever China and China Awakes, with this combined reprint edition containing approximately half the original text in this installment

This section of Payne's personal diaries form a 1940s-contemporary wartime travelogue memoir of his expat experiences leaving Singapore for China as World War II expanded further into the Pacific, taking him from his initial posting at the British Embassy to eventually teaching at universities at Chungking and Kunming in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, and recording his first-hand observations of the effects of the war upon his students and broader Chinese society, as well as his own encounters with the local people and their culture.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.

Free for a limited time @ Amazon (should be available worldwide).

Description Four years after the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted, Robert Payne left Singapore for China, a land which, until then, he had explored solely in his dreams. Posted to the British Embassy, in the turmoil following Pearl Harbor and the expanding Pacific War, he ended up teaching in the universities at Chungking and Kunming.

In this position, he bore witness to the effect of war on every level of Chinese society, particularly on students, and the divisions that were torn in the country itself. Recording his encounters and experiences in detail, Payne’s descriptions are a feast for the senses, weaving a tapestry of such vibrancy that you could almost reach out and touch it.

Filled with poignant memories, love and loss, Payne’s Chinese Diaries are more than just an ode to a country, but a window to the East and a way of life during this turbulent era.

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World Hopping

Reading is more than uploading a clever storyline from a string of words. Reading is immersion into an imagined world – not just descriptions, context or character traits but nuance, points-of-view never before glimpsed, wholly different worlds adrift in time and space within a book. Scanning my stack of recently read books each world calls back to me:   –- the texture of dense fog, of London’s…

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