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Not book related but just wanted to share this video of this man that goes around rescuing animals and the happy ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzr0...

Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles... .Until I read the Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal I had never read of war as it was except in Tolstoi...To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris....was like having a great treasure given to you.

One day, much later, I met Joyce who was walking along the Boulevard St.-Germain after having been to a matinee alone. He liked to listen to the actors, although he could not see them. He asked me to have a drink with him and we went to the Deux-Magots and ordered dry sherry although you will always read that he drank only Swiss white wine.

"Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason."

Eh.......I still haven't gotten excited about this book.......but I'll keep going.

"The social ladder has been put ready for me to climb...Yet here I am, nowhere, as it were, and infinitely an outsider. And of my own choice"
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"...'that very sharp tongue' ....."to take the skin off your back".' Vituperation was a skill Lawrence developed early, to cope with the world.
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Lawrence would be the only the second miner's son ever to go to the High School.

Mason sings...

"Ay, Señorit-ta, it
Can't, be sweet-ter, what
Shall-we, do?

What a Fies-ta, not
Much Sies-ta, do you
Think-so, too?

Look ye, the, Moon-is ascend-ding,
You no comprehend ing-
Glés, it's just as well, -

For, I'm-in-your-Spell, what's
That-can't-you-tell? Ay, Seen-
Yo-ree-tah!

Quaquaversal from wiktionary.com

Adjective
going off in all directions from the center  

pg. 317
"there'll be days when the Compasses run quaquaversally wild, boxing themselves, and you, into Perplexity, ..."

I used to live there n was there this week......why didn't I buy a ticket there God ......WHY!

Also, for FREE can you vote for Joel and Yoandri at

http://www.univision.com/la-banda/vot...

Even if you don't know what this is about PLEASE vote it is free. We are trying to help those 2 be part of the new band that will sign with Sony Music Latin & Syco Music, which is the label of One Direction. The manager will be Ricky Martin & the show is by Simon Cowell. Pls vote!

If you have TWITTER can you PLEASE make a tweet that just says #LaBandaYoandri and then make another tweet that says #LaBandaJoel so 2 different ones and same for facebook all you got to do is #LaBandaYoandri and another #LaBandaJoel This weekend they form the last 5 to form the band that Ricky Martin will manage so please vote for those 2 even if u don't see spanish tv we just need your votes!

I'm starting this beast......Let's GoOo!

I've been wanting to read Pynchon's Jr. BUT my library don't have it. B&N don't have it. Amazon has it through sellers and they are asking for WAYY too much. Almost $20 including S&H for a USED one. I don't understand why of all the Pynchon books I am having this issue with Jr. So frustrating!

Hoping to get for 40% at B&N

Crime and Punishment: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Love that cover!

"So you were born some weeks earlier, perhaps in Aries, even Pisces...Less probably, in Taurus, yet,-"he is giving Mason the heavy O.O.
"If it's helpful, I am told that of the Qualities observ'd in my comportment, those of the classic Taurean preavail,-Persistent, Phlegmatick, Provok'd only with great difficult,-our Passion of Titanick Scope, our Fate, ever to be prick'd at by small men in spangl'd Costumers" (138).

Kepler said that Astrology is Astronomy's wanton little sister, who goes out and sells herself that Astronomy may keep her Virtue,-surely we have all done the Covent Garden turn. As to the older Sister, how many Steps may she herself indeed already have taken into Compromise?....
(136)

"Congratulations, much Joy," wish [M&D]. "Twenty-nine's Fell Shadow! O, inhospitably final year of any Pretense to Youth, its Dream now, how wither'd away...tho' styl'd a Prime, yet bid'st thou Adieu to the Prime of Life!...There,-Transition unspeakable! Prime so soon fallen, thy Virtue so easily broken, into a Number divisible,-penetrable!-by six others!" pg.118

-Maskelyne's birthday

#PrayersForParis

In case you haven't heard:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pari...

...place of lived experience, and imagination, as we know from Descartes, Kant, and of course from Sartre, is the beginning of all philosophical reflection (72).

It is with desire and frustration that Meursault begins to be a philosopher: At first he is "hardly conscious of being in prison," but he soon finds himself facing the awful breach between the concrete but vacuous reality of his former existence and the abstract but rich possibilities of thought. At first it is simple daydreaming, "my habit of thinking like a free man," but soon imagination begins to take the...

It is true that the trial is a political mockery, but its purpose is not to demonstrate some perverse injustice or to make a victim out of "innocent" Meursault. It is a trial of Meursault's uneventful life, not for justice, but in and for himself (72).