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Nex posted On Oscar Wilde | Jun 26, 2008
Oscar Wilde was a genius. I don't mean that in the typically glib internet way of idolizing dead people merely because their names are vaguely odd -- no, the man was truly the epitome of wit. I'm clever as all fuck, and generally have a rejoinder for any situation, but Mr. Wilde would no doubt talk...
Aubrey posted The Peacock Room | Jun 16, 2008
On four walls he painted a glittering, gilded cacophony, golden feathers dripping down leather walls, wings that panted against the ceiling, multitudes of patterns that made a mockery of empty space. Peacocks make human noises; they scream and cry in jagged, lonely tones. But nature apologized to...
Dr. Tsai posted To Read, or Not To Read | May 29, 2008
Both Janice and I are avid readers; of different breeds, though: she tries to read 50 books, page-to-page, a year, and I rarely read a book from preface to epilogue and every page in between. I went through the list of books she has read past several years and few, if any, overlap with mine. We both...
Koios posted Thinking Quotes | May 21, 2008
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -Albert Einstein A man is but the product of his thoughts: what he thinks, he becomes. -Gandhi...
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