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Soo Too

stars through my soul

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo

Spike

Alchemy

It makes sense when you think about it... kind of. (since we're in the mood to quote Victor Hugo) "Yes, Manou said it, and Zoroaster taught it! the sun is born from fire, the moon from the sun; fire is the soul of the universe; its elementary atoms pour forth and flow incessantly upon the world...

Spike

The local ruins

Victor Hugo said: I should be able to say to the reader, "Go and look at it," and we should thus both escape the necessity,--I of making, and he of reading, a description of it. But I say: Better look quick before the danm thing falls in! I was out looking for water in Georgia...but that's another...

vtpanther

"There are moments when a man has a furnace in his brain."

Today, having so much work to do that I could not possibly have gotten it all done if I had worked on it all day, I decided to take my friend Ally up on her offer of a free ticket to see Les Miserables at the Weston Playhouse. For one play, it’s amazing how many connections one can make between...

Debbie

My Miserable Book

Totally inspired by Cori's Big Read post, I decided that - for awhile - I'm going to read books off that list that I've been meaning to read for some time now. My dad, as I said in my response post, could absolutely tear that list apart he's read so many. That thought bore many more thoughts, such...

Spike

Vox Hunt: Architectural Digest

Show us an example of architecture you find interesting or inspiring. Gothic.... And now... teh Hugo.. (from Notre Dame de Paris - at which point La Esmeralda is in sanctuary) Let us add that the church, that vast church, which surrounded her on every side, which guarded her, which saved her, was...

Spike

accomplishments galore!

Yes I've been quiet for a while on my own journal. For the past week or so I've had so many irons in the fire that I've not had much time to finish anything, but at long last a few projects came together and I have some free time if the weather permits and my modem does not get lightningstruck....