|
July 10
|
|
Katarzyna
gave
to:
The Taming of the Shrew (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
by William Shakespeare
|
my rating:
Added to my books!
add my review
|
| |
read in January, 2000
Katarzyna said:
"I enjoy Shakespeare a lot.
This peticular comedy is one of my favourit. Even though, in majority of cases, my great boyfriends and I are on the friendly terms, they will eagerly comply with the opinion that I am the typical Shakespeare Shrew!
...more
I enjoy Shakespeare a lot.
This peticular comedy is one of my favourit. Even though, in majority of cases, my great boyfriends and I are on the friendly terms, they will eagerly comply with the opinion that I am the typical Shakespeare Shrew!
The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2. IS SHE IRONICAL?
KATHARINA
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience;
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince
Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
My heart as great, my reason haply more,
To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
But now I see our lances are but straws,
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
And place your hands below your husband's foot:
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready; may it do him ease.
...less
"
|
|
Katarzyna
gave
to:
Siddhartha (Modern Library (Hardcover))
by Hermann Hesse
|
my rating:
Added to my books!
add my review
|
| |
read in January, 2003
Katarzyna said:
"Those colorful, scented stories, so simple, so obvious- will open your mind and heart.
I read the Polish translation and I often come back to this novel and make new notes.
As there is no longer copy right coverage (my learned firends in intell...more
Those colorful, scented stories, so simple, so obvious- will open your mind and heart.
I read the Polish translation and I often come back to this novel and make new notes.
As there is no longer copy right coverage (my learned firends in intellectual property!) its available online.
[http://www.online-literature.com/hesse/siddhartha/]
Its a very nice website btw.
For book online try Gutenberg Project as well:
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Pa...
"[Siddhartha learns] that one cannot have pleasure without giving it...She taught him that lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused."
"Now, he thought, that all transitory things have slipped away from me again, I stand once more beneath the sun, as I once stood as a small child. Nothing is mine, I know nothing, I possess nothing, I have learned nothing...when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray...now I am beginning again like a child."
"It is a good thing to experience everything oneself...As a child I learned that pleasures of the world and riches were not good. I have known it for a long time, but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my ears, with my heart, with my stomach. It is a good thing that I know this."
"The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth...in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future...Siddhartha the boy, Siddhartha the mature man and Siddhartha the old man [are] only separated by shadows, not through reality...Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence."
"[A]ll the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life...then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - perfection."
...less
"
|
|
Katarzyna
gave
to:
If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path (Paperback)
by Charlotte Kasl
|
my rating:
Added to my books!
add my review
|
| |
read in January, 2007
Katarzyna said:
"Linda!
Tahnk you very much for your present!
As always you know what is appriopriate in every situation!
I liked the book a lot! I would have to read it again to apply some of the wisdom!
Following the spirit I highly recomend "Siddharth...more
Linda!
Tahnk you very much for your present!
As always you know what is appriopriate in every situation!
I liked the book a lot! I would have to read it again to apply some of the wisdom!
Following the spirit I highly recomend "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. The heart opening stories!
"When we dive into the ocean, we become the sea".
"Rather than saying, "Worship me," he taught people to become free of their illusions so they could be in touch with their inner radiance, or as some say, the luminous essence at the center of their being -- the natural wellspring of compassion, kindness, and tranquility. He believed that from this place we would see each other clearly, free of expectations and images from the past."
...less
"
|
|
June 28
|
|
New comment on Katarzyna's review of
The Last Wish
reply to this comment
|
|
|
Katarzyna
gave
to:
The Last Wish (Hardcover)
by Andrzej Sapkowski
|
my rating:
Added to my books!
add my review
|
| |
|
