George K. Ilsley's Blog, page 3
May 16, 2016
sentence of the day
She sang, of course, “M’ama!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
- Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)
February 5, 2016
sentence of the day (extra dry)
The art of public life consists to a great extent of knowing exactly where to stop and going a bit farther.
- Saki (The Unbearable Bassington)
September 11, 2015
queer arts and literature magazine
Poet Ben Ladouceur has some kind words about encountering my book, Random Acts of Hatred
March 31, 2015
Sentence of the day (extra racy)
A tang of sweat spread as he stripped and a muscle thickened up out of gold.
— E. M. Forster (from ”The Other Boat”, included in the posthumous collection “The Life to Come and other stories”. Considered unpublishable by Forster, this sentence is the most graphic in the collection.)
September 5, 2014
Face mites live on all adults, study suggests
The faces of all adults are home to microscopic eight-legged creatures, a new study suggests. CBC science columnist Torah Kachur reports.
Generally speaking, most people don’t want to know about this.
August 14, 2014
kinsey's enthusiasm
Alfred Kinsey is famous of course in the field of human sexuality (the “Kinsey scale”), but before this, Kinsey was known as an entomologist.
Kinsey studied large numbers, in order to see the pattern of nature displayed on the bell curve. The moral here, the moral of the story of nature and…
August 6, 2014
Sentence of the day (slightly modified)
The pull of [the razor] was like the rough lick of a cat’s tongue, and Elvis felt himself relaxing into his father’s body.
— Chris Abani (Graceland)
July 18, 2014
Sentence of the day (with lots of commas)
No, he would de-kike the word “faggot,” which had punch, bite, a no-nonsense, chin-out assertiveness, and which, at present, was no more self-deprecatory than, say, “American.”
— Larry Kramer (Faggots)
June 11, 2014
The Boy Who Stopped
English 110- Group Presentation
Thanks to Ada, Shirley, Nicole and Ekjot for creating this presentation of my short story “The Boy Who Stopped.”
June 2, 2014
Sentence of the day (with colon)
He distrusted her affection: and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
— George Elliot (Middlemarch)
