“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Something to die for
“List of Social Changes that Would Assist the Flourishing of Literary Beauty” by William T. Vollmann. Originally published in his essay, “Something to Die For.”
1. Abolish television, because it has no reverence for time.
2. Abolish the automobile, because it has no reverence for space.
3. Make citizenship contingent upon literacy in every sense. Thus, politicians who do not write every word of their own speeches should be thrown out of office in disgrace. Writers who require editors to make their books “good” should be depublished.
4. Teach reverence for all beauty, including that of the word.
1. Abolish television, because it has no reverence for time.
2. Abolish the automobile, because it has no reverence for space.
3. Make citizenship contingent upon literacy in every sense. Thus, politicians who do not write every word of their own speeches should be thrown out of office in disgrace. Writers who require editors to make their books “good” should be depublished.
4. Teach reverence for all beauty, including that of the word.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Science
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, Science has been a thorn in the side: incessantly inconvenient, calculatingly cold, and questioning of one's deeply held beliefs. It disregards personal feelings and eschews political correctness.
But that's not the worst of it.
Science is the reason why Earth is no longer at the center of the Universe. We humans used to be so significant. Everything revolved around us until Science and it's meddling, pesky purveyors got in the way. Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo couldn't leave well enough alone. They simply had to burst our geocentric bubble of superiority. But we showed those scientists. We cast them out, banned their ideas, and placed them under trial. But alas, in the end, we couldn't stop them. The ideas far outlived their mortal originators. Now, the Earth is just a rock in a solar system, one of billions.
But that's not the worst of it.
Science is the reason why Earth is no longer at the center of the Universe. We humans used to be so significant. Everything revolved around us until Science and it's meddling, pesky purveyors got in the way. Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo couldn't leave well enough alone. They simply had to burst our geocentric bubble of superiority. But we showed those scientists. We cast them out, banned their ideas, and placed them under trial. But alas, in the end, we couldn't stop them. The ideas far outlived their mortal originators. Now, the Earth is just a rock in a solar system, one of billions.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Never
They say never say 'always'.
They also say never say 'never'.
So isn't never say always a contradiction then.
So I suppose you can say 'always' sometimes
They also say never say 'never'.
So isn't never say always a contradiction then.
So I suppose you can say 'always' sometimes
Random
Verbal disagreement, vocab mismatch, statistical semantics
High information-encountering individual
Reading your body clock.
High information-encountering individual
Reading your body clock.
Serendipity
The word serendipity itself comes from Horace Walpole, who wrote that the main characters in “The Three Princes of Serendip” were “always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” We seem to have no trouble remembering the accident part of chance findings, but the second part is worth repeating: a successful discovery lies just not in the unexpectedness of what we find, but in our ability to make sense of it and connect it to what we already know.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Favorite pastime
Sometimes she would sit and feel.. That used to be her favorite pastime.
And sometimes she overdid feeling so much that no words could contain the extent of her passion. Then her eyes would speak.
And sometimes she overdid feeling so much that no words could contain the extent of her passion. Then her eyes would speak.
Possibilities
The proud surrender. That's love. She'd surrendered but with trepidation. Nothing came out of it though. Luckily. The possibilities in life intimidated her sometimes and all then she wanted to do was run and hide. How do you deal with myriad of possibilities?
Sunday, March 3, 2013
“reason is, and ought to be, only the slave of the passion”- Hume
"This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness."
Power
I have no power over you that you don't give me, and you have no power over me that I don't give you. … Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.
- Vi Hart
- Vi Hart
The Lottery
"When people are part of a group, they often experience deindividuation, or a loss of self-awareness. When people deindividuate, they are less likely to follow normal restraints and inhibitions and more likely to lose their sense of individual identity."
"Twice makes a tradition."
"Twice makes a tradition."
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