January 2010
R.I.P J.D. Salinger, (1/1/1919-27/1/2010) →
New World
I couldn’t understand them. Their words were a simple collections of letters, much like the ones typed in furry on a keyboard when you are so frustrated that the only thing you can do is scatter your fingers about and scream. Everything sounded the same unending sentence. They glared at me—angry with my linguistic infancy.
What could I do? I didn’t know where I was or how I had gotten...
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“Ahh, the television. Just like the internet, but not as good” -Charlieissocoollike
Reading List
Things to read from now until Mid-May (all school related)
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Creation: the True Story of Charles Darwin (Originally titled: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution) - Randel Keynes
Utopia - Thomas More
Frankenstein (1831) - Marry W. Shelley
Venus & Adonis - William Shakespeare
Richard III - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream -...
“His Works may be considered a Map of Life.”
– Samuel Johnson, in reference to William Shakespeare
i never realised until just now how much i want to...
(via dreamsaremypilot)
“We are low living well enough ad long enough to slowly fall apart”
– Robert Sapolsky
about books
started going through what books i’ve read and putting them in a doc so i can remember… i’ve read a god-awful amount of amanda quick/jayne ann krentz books last year. not that she’s a shit writer. she’s lovely, but not amazing in the way that impacts upon a persons life like john green’s looking for alaska or judith guest’s ordinary people.
so, i have a...
Fired Up
While it was not the first book I started this year, Jayne Ann Krentz’s Fired Up, an Arcane Society Novel, book one of the Dreamlight Trilogy, was the first one finished. Released at the very end of last year, Fired Up is the seventh installment of Krentz’s ongoing Arcane Society series in which she writes in historical, present, and future romance stories under the names of Amanda...
Opus 36 by Daniel O’Halloran
This piece is...
“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep”
– W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
2010 means new laws
today, mum decided we were going to start a new law in the house against swearing. 25 cents for all swear words except “shit” and “fuck.” 50 cents for “fuck.” “shit” is allowed and swearing is allowed when you’ve injured yourself.
within the first five minutes my step dad was at a dollar. it’s been about thirty minutes and he’s up...
the accident.
was watching the hangover (2009) with me mum, we got about 20 minutes in when we heard a siren and then saw the reds lights — something happened down at the lake, which is across the street from us. With the fire trucks, ambulance, police, and trees you can’t see a thing, but me mum is at the window with the binoculars — she wants to know what’s happening. Nosiest woman in...