August 2009
1 post
July 2009
1 post
“To die will be an awfully big adventure… I’m youth, I’m joy,...”
– “Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up” J.M. Barrie
Ah, in love with this play.
May 2009
2 posts
“The first woman may have been Eve, but the first girl will always be Alma…...”
– The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
Everyone read it. Seriously.
“This circle represents people who are breaking my heart, and this circle...”
– Marshall (How I Met Your Mother)
April 2009
1 post
“It had always been of the greatest importance to him… that nothing should...”
– “The Emigrants” - Max Ferber
W.G. Sebald
March 2009
4 posts
“IV. DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry...”
– - T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”
I now have an abhorred hatred of this man, Phlebas. Upon the realisation that he is not, in fact, a reference to The Odyssey NOR The Aeneid, a good 40 minutes of what could’ve been used to write this essay were wasted finding him in the texts...
“Today, I repaired a boiler for a wealthy guy in a big house. While there, I...”
– FMyLife.com
“‘Bad men have no songs’. - How is it the Russians have songs?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche: “Twilight of the Idols”
W.E.B. Du Bois
This thing is rather odd, and I’m unsure what it really does. But it cannot be less odd than Twitter, which I still do not understand.
I’m in the middle of reading (as is the usual in the Foundation Year Programme), this time The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois. Published in 1903, this beautifully written work is pretty much blowing my mind away. I may love me some Nietzsche,...