Tiah Beautement's Blog, page 93
September 5, 2013
On God
"I choose to believe it. ... I mean, there's no downside to that. If you say, 'Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God,' then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But, at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, 'Well, if...
September 4, 2013
On Short Story Day Africa's Adult Winners
The winners have been announced. Go over to BooksLive and take a look!
September 2, 2013
On Larry's Party
Carol Shields, Larry's Party - History, it seemed to Larry, left strange details behind, mostly meaningless: odd and foolish gadgets, tools that had become separated from their purpose, whimsical 'notions, curious turnings, a surprising number of dead ends. - - He remembered later just how she pronounced the word hell - as though it were a real place full of breath, flame, and wonder, and crammed with exotic creatures and strange beguiling flowers, but a place not to be tolerated for one minute when the untested, unmapped world beckoned. - - Whether the cause is genetic or accidental, he knows...
On nightmares
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be hand in explanations. They're antithetical to the poetry of fear. - Stephen King
August 30, 2013
Short Story Day Africa 2013 YA / Kid winners!
Posted the results on BooksLive - go have a look!
August 29, 2013
August 28, 2013
On nightmares
You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It’s that something’s going on in your head, and you can’t control it. I mean, it’s like there’s these bad worlds inside you. But it’s just you…it’s like you’re betraying yourself. - Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
August 27, 2013
On waves
How I yearn to roll back into myself, to merge with the ocean as a wave. - Hortensia Anderson, Haibun - As A Wave
August 25, 2013
On dreams
'I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?' - John Lennon
August 22, 2013
On silence
Krog remarked on the absolute silence in which she was working: “Your subconscious is sorting things out…all the time busy with what you are doing.” - Podcast: Antjie Krog Discusses Skinned
