I try to think logically and the result of that is most people think I'm a satirist. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist, libertarian and magician (1932-2007) Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than...
The whole process is a lie, unless, crowned by excess, It break forcefully, one way or another, from its confinement? or find a deeper well. Antony and Cleopatra were right; they have shown the way. I love you or I do not live at all. Daffodil time is past. This is summer, summer! the heart says,...
OK folks. Same deal: Bold for books I've read. Underlined for books I've read and loved. Italics for books I mean to read. Crossed through for books I have no intention of ever reading. Here goes: THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS by Henry Adams THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by William James UP...
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Published in 2005 by Cassell Illustrated. Selected & written by 90 leading international critics, general editor Robert Dimery. In chronological order 1955-2005. Year of release only given here, when considered absolutely necessary. Where there were...
Pulchritudinous from the OED: Beautiful, graceful, or fine in any way. as in 1912 L.J. Vance Destroying Angel xv. 217, I love my love with a P because he's Perfectly Pulchritudinous and Possesses the Power of Pleasing. as in beautiful, beatific, beat. as in Amiri Baraka "Ka'Ba": "We are beautiful...
I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...
ABOUT SUMMER TIME! The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever. - Anonymous A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer...
What is one of your favorite poems? Submitted by marvel is my pen name. My favorite poem is "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams. It can be found in The Collected Poems Of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939...or stuck to my refrigerator with a magnet. Here it is:
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold. -- William Carlos Williams I love this little poem. And I love my gorgeous plums. This feed contains copyrighted photos and text...
