Allow me to take a break from our regularly scheduled programing about programming to note some contrasts in various poetic works
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Full text of The Scornful Lady here)
“He was a man
I knew but in his evening; ten suns after
Forc’d by a tyrant storm, our beaten bark
Bulg’d under us: in which [...]
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
5 Oct
Markers of Society’s Evolution. Frankly, I’m Encouraged for My Generation
19 Sep
Between books and people, I prefer not the latter
My nano-town has a library sale every year. Despite the prefix, the town’s library is quite decent, especially with the inter-library loan system, and the book sale has always yielded happy things for me and mine.
This year’s stock was nowhere near as substantial as past years. Last year there were sagging bookshelves around the walls, [...]
15 May
Earthquake
After many years of not-enough-time and - let’s face it - stark intimidation, I’ve started a behemoth, one bite at a time.* I began reading Atlas Shrugged last month, and plan on finishing it by the end of this month. I’m almost halfway through right now. The prose is verbose but picturesque, and it is long but [...]
26 Nov
High Culture
I have decided to take this blog in a slightly different direction for the rest of 2008.
I will still regale you with tales of my life and mishaps, but I in the similar vein of this post, I really want to put some great media out there, specifically books and movies, with a little music.
This [...]
6 Nov
Two Books
Sometimes to properly understand why I do or don’t like something, I have to compare it to another, similar (or sometimes dissimilar) entity. I did this recently with books, and I think it will help to review them via comparison/contrast.
First, a friend recommended Middlesex. By Jeffrey Eugenides (author of The Virgin Suicides) it was a much-touted [...]
21 Jul
Brilliant
A friend of mine is doing a series of posts on the Greatest Invention Ever.* I am feeling vaguely inspired by them, as well as my shopping excursion yesterday, and therefore I dub gift cards one of the greatest things ever invented.
I know many people look on gift cards as a cop-out. But even when I [...]
20 Jun
More Instant Gratification. Now!
Since my first post on this subject was lacking, I felt like expounding on the subject. I look back and think maybe I should be that spontaneous . . . not to call a cab for the express purpose of taking me somewhere for 78 cent goodness, b/c that would be a little excessive unless I’d lost a [...]
25 Jan
Poetry
I like Yeats. I always have, since I ‘discovered’ him by watching Equilibrium. (Meaning I had read him, but had never really pursued him of my own volition). For more on this movie see the Must List, for now suffice it to say it’s an indie movie with quite a bit of violence and a distopian, Orwellian look at [...]
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