April 2005
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The Coldness Of Nobility
Falstaff: Yea, and so used it that; were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent.– But. I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king, and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father antick the law? Do not thou, when thou [...]
Bharat Matrimonials
www.bharatmatrimonial.com This site simply astounds me. First, it amazed me because occasionally the header text reads on it, “marriage is guaranteed.” That alone seems to make the site noteworthy. But there’s so much more that amazes me about the entire thing. First, there’s the simple fact that cultures with arranged marriages seem to have happier [...]
Johnson’s Melancholy
The “morbid melancholy,” which was lurking in his constitution, and to which we may ascribe those particularities, and that aversion to regular life, which, at a very early period, marked his character, gathered such strength in his twentieth year, as to afflict him in a dreadful manner. While he was at Lichfield, in the college [...]
Solitude
To sit on rocks, to muse o’er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene, Where things that own not man’s dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne’er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o’er steeps and foaming falls [...]
The New Bane Song
The new Bane song is pretty damn good. From what I’ve been told the lyrics are: Will not back down now, I’ve got no place else to run and hide to, Have come to far to buckle now. Can’t lay this one down to the likes of you And I don’t say that with some [...]
The Aphrodite Project
Lately, I’ve been debating undertaking the creation of an experiment in psychology full of open-source hacking fun. The project’s basic idea is this: apply evolutionary programming concepts and ideas from neural net design to a personals matching site. In short, making a match.com that’s intellectually exciting and potentially much more successful. Above all else, do [...]
Rereading
How much value is there in rereading books! I return to Lear again every year, often every month and rethink the entire work. As a boy, I had a terror of the reaction to a moment of vulnerability in Lear leading to his violent outburts that destroyed him. Yet at that point I had never [...]
Bled Across The Wire
The Hope Conspiracy deserves their reputation for being a great band. Any band with an ounce of good sense playing hardcore wins my affection. Burned the years into ashen whispers. This acrid smoke chokes my lungs. So careless with friends we’re given; So quick to reject forgiveness. Suffering to claim back time. And to think [...]
Heinrich Heine And Catullus
Why is it that the poets of the world have been, by and large, so painfully bland compared with Catullus and Heine? Why so lacking in that bitter, sarcasm without which I cannot conceive of beauty or true innocence of heart. In my mind, Heine and Catullus between them divide nearly all responsibility for all [...]
Thought For The Day
Tennyson said, in a poem I read for the first time because I suspected from the first stanza it would suit my mood, A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?’ Then to the still small voice I said; ‘Let me not cast [...]