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...a hermit, a shadow, and a madman travel across a strange desert on a strange journey. near the end of his journey, the hermit will be tempted by a mysterious woman. along the way, the shadow decides he wants to become a man and so is instructed...
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Here we are again! Having read Chapman's Odyssey, it was soon clear that Richmond Lattimore's more clear, muscular-seeming but sometimes surprisingly understated verse would not be aiming for the elegant rhyming form I had become familiar with (if...
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This translation for Oxford World's Classics by James N McGowan is wonderful enough that I was compelled to buy it, and is offered next to the French text in this excellent paperback for a degree of transparency I am grateful for even with my limi...
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“Heck, who needs things like skydiving and rock climbing for your adreline kick, if you can get it from playing Russian roulette with open windows?”
― Traveller
― Traveller
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“Too much life, and too little space...”
― Allen Blair
― Allen Blair
“There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
― Manny Rayner
― Manny Rayner
FLIGHTS OF FANCY (Literature & Fiction)
3 chapters
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updated Apr 22, 2013 05:44am
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Freeflow prose & poetry
Commentary on (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Mar 17, 2013 11:40am
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An attempt to argue towards an alternative interpretation to a work that is often interpreted as a Gothic ghost tale.
NOTES: ETHICS (Nonfiction)
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updated Feb 14, 2013 03:45am
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General notes on three areas of the practical applications of ethic: bioethics, environmental ethics, and business ethics.
NOTES: Infinite Jest (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated Dec 11, 2012 04:11am
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I think it's going to be easier to put my notes where there is space for them.
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